Walks Through the Studii of the Sculptors at Rome, Volumes 1-2Monaldini, 1841 - Sculptors |
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... perhaps the grandest composition of modern art . Thorwaldsen , who is confessedly at the head of the modern school of sculpture , is preeminent- ly so in basso rilievo . It has been said that his genius is sometimes erratic , and his ...
... perhaps the grandest composition of modern art . Thorwaldsen , who is confessedly at the head of the modern school of sculpture , is preeminent- ly so in basso rilievo . It has been said that his genius is sometimes erratic , and his ...
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... perhaps observe sign . Galli , a disciple of Thorwaldsen , perusing from time to time a volume : it is Homer , from whose Iliad and Odyssey he is modelling a series of me- dallions . Observe with what truth and beauty he has espressed ...
... perhaps observe sign . Galli , a disciple of Thorwaldsen , perusing from time to time a volume : it is Homer , from whose Iliad and Odyssey he is modelling a series of me- dallions . Observe with what truth and beauty he has espressed ...
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... perhaps as difficult in execution as the nude ; the latter may be aided by science , that is by a know- ledge of proportion and anatomy ; but the former cannot be definitively reduced to rule . Particular com- binations will necessarily ...
... perhaps as difficult in execution as the nude ; the latter may be aided by science , that is by a know- ledge of proportion and anatomy ; but the former cannot be definitively reduced to rule . Particular com- binations will necessarily ...
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... perhaps near Castalia's fount , on the poetic stream of which we observe the swan sacred to him , because , foreseeing happiness in death , it sings out its soul in joyous melody not unlike the plaintive notes which thrill from the lyre ...
... perhaps near Castalia's fount , on the poetic stream of which we observe the swan sacred to him , because , foreseeing happiness in death , it sings out its soul in joyous melody not unlike the plaintive notes which thrill from the lyre ...
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... perhaps have too much rotundity ; but in his later works he has profitted by the Elgin marbles , the figures of which are flatter and consequently receive on their respec- tive surfaces 3 THORWALDSEN 49 over which they preside. Thalia ...
... perhaps have too much rotundity ; but in his later works he has profitted by the Elgin marbles , the figures of which are flatter and consequently receive on their respec- tive surfaces 3 THORWALDSEN 49 over which they preside. Thalia ...
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