Augustus Saint-GaudensHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 - 85 Seiten |
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... memorial in St. Giles's Church in Edin- burgh was modelled in Paris in 1900 from the medallion aforesaid , and , by the way , the history of this work of- fers an apt example of the difficulty which Saint - Gaudens sometimes found in ...
... memorial in St. Giles's Church in Edin- burgh was modelled in Paris in 1900 from the medallion aforesaid , and , by the way , the history of this work of- fers an apt example of the difficulty which Saint - Gaudens sometimes found in ...
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... memorial to Stevenson could have been devised than the one which Edinburgh owes to this American artist . Talking one day in Paris with the late Paul Leroi , I spoke of the meretricious elements which have crept into the art of certain ...
... memorial to Stevenson could have been devised than the one which Edinburgh owes to this American artist . Talking one day in Paris with the late Paul Leroi , I spoke of the meretricious elements which have crept into the art of certain ...
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... Memorial at Princeton . But in the five monuments in which he commemorated five heroes of our Civil War , he had no aid from costume or accessories . He had in- stead to work on the bed rock of character , and he did this with results ...
... Memorial at Princeton . But in the five monuments in which he commemorated five heroes of our Civil War , he had no aid from costume or accessories . He had in- stead to work on the bed rock of character , and he did this with results ...
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... the Logan does not impress us as the Lincoln does , it is the fault of the subject , not of the sculptor ; he at least did his duty by it . One is easily lured from this , ROBERT GOULD SHAW When Saint - Gaudens undertook this memorial 56.
... the Logan does not impress us as the Lincoln does , it is the fault of the subject , not of the sculptor ; he at least did his duty by it . One is easily lured from this , ROBERT GOULD SHAW When Saint - Gaudens undertook this memorial 56.
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Royal Cortissoz. ROBERT GOULD SHAW When Saint - Gaudens undertook this memorial in 1884 he expected to complete it within a comparatively short time , but he became absorbed in modifications of the scheme , and kept it by him for a ...
Royal Cortissoz. ROBERT GOULD SHAW When Saint - Gaudens undertook this memorial in 1884 he expected to complete it within a comparatively short time , but he became absorbed in modifications of the scheme , and kept it by him for a ...
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Adams monument American sculpture angel ANNO DOMINI AVGVSTVS SAINT-GAVDENS 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 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 LANDING OF COLVMBY 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 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 virtue which embraces WOY WOY WOY York
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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...