Augustus Saint-GaudensHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 - 85 Seiten |
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... gives us a portrait with an accent of its own . Saint- Gaudens does the same thing . We think first of Lincoln when seated in the stately exedra with which Stanford White partly enclosed the statue , but one of the many thoughts with ...
... gives us a portrait with an accent of its own . Saint- Gaudens does the same thing . We think first of Lincoln when seated in the stately exedra with which Stanford White partly enclosed the statue , but one of the many thoughts with ...
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... give us the steeds of the Parthenon and the famous horses of St. Mark's ; the splendid animal which the bronze figure of Marcus Aurelius bestrides in the Piazza del Campidoglio , at Rome ; the leaping chariot team of the Vatican , and ...
... give us the steeds of the Parthenon and the famous horses of St. Mark's ; the splendid animal which the bronze figure of Marcus Aurelius bestrides in the Piazza del Campidoglio , at Rome ; the leaping chariot team of the Vatican , and ...
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... give your vote for something that at least approximates to the master- piece you have learned to admire . Nor , in this matter , am I indulging in pleasant theory . Bad sculpture , vulgar sculpture , no doubt persists in getting itself ...
... give your vote for something that at least approximates to the master- piece you have learned to admire . Nor , in this matter , am I indulging in pleasant theory . Bad sculpture , vulgar sculpture , no doubt persists in getting itself ...
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... give freely of his energies whenever they seemed to be needed in a good work . His generosity came out , too , in all the private relations of an artist . No one could have been more helpful than he was to young men of talent . I ...
... give freely of his energies whenever they seemed to be needed in a good work . His generosity came out , too , in all the private relations of an artist . No one could have been more helpful than he was to young men of talent . I ...
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... give his grateful and bewildered listener such happy stimulus as he had never known before . It was the more encouraging , too , because praise from Saint - Gaudens was long ago recognized as having a special value by those who knew him ...
... give his grateful and bewildered listener such happy stimulus as he had never known before . It was the more encouraging , too , because praise from Saint - Gaudens was long ago recognized as having a special value by those who knew him ...
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Adams monument American sculpture angel ANNO DOMINI AVGVSTVS SAINT-GAVDENS BASTIEN Bastien-Lepage beautiful Boston bronze of Marcus bust caryatides Chapin monument Chicago Cornelius Vanderbilt days in Paris denoting a virtue departure for Samoa equestrian statue exedra face Farragut figure FOVE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY French Gaudens genius George W GILDER Modelled grandeur hand hero should speak Homer Saint-Gaudens house of Cornelius impression JACOB H JAMES MCCOSH Joan of Arc keen craftsman LEPAGE Lincoln Logan loved Manasquan Maynard MCCOSH This memorial medal medallions Miss Violet Sargent Modelled in Paris modern Morgan tomb never pecially where public pedestal perfect PETER COOPER phatically the word PLURIBVS VIVIE President of Princeton Princeton was erected public monuments Puritan relief Renaissance RICHARD WATSON GILDER Robert Louis Stevenson Saint SCHIFF sculptor sculptor's early days Shaw Sherman Smith tomb Stanford White studio style thought tomb at Hartford tomb at Newport touched traits unmistakable terms alike unveiled vulgar concession York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 39 - And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I praise him not; it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Seite 32 - ... Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But by...
Seite 32 - His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface And thwart her genial will ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked...
Seite 32 - But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! They knew that outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind...