Famous Sculptors and SculptureJ.R. Osgood, 1881 - 319 Seiten "13 heliotype illustrations by the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston, from photographs of sculpture." -- Hanson collection catalog, p. 72. |
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Seite 190 - Roubiliac was an enthusiast in his art ; possessed of considerable talents : he copied vulgar nature with zeal, and some of his figures seem alive ; but their characters are mean, their expressions grimace, and their forms frequently bad : his draperies are worked with great diligence and labour from the most disagreeable examples in nature, the folds being either heavy or meagre, frequently without a determined general form, and hung on his figures with little meaning. He grouped two figures together,...
Seite 287 - ... cable. We were received with much courtesy and emphasis by the director of the foundry, and conducted into a large room walled with bare, new brick, where the statue was standing in front of the extinct furnace : a majestic Webster indeed, eight feet high, and looking even more colossal than that. The likeness seemed to me perfect, and, like a sensible man, Powers has dressed him in his natural costume, such as I have seen Webster have on while making a speech in the open air at a mass meeting...
Seite 290 - I have sacrificed to it the flower of my days and the freshness of my strength ; its every lineament has been moistened with the sweat of my toil and the tears of my exile. I would not barter away its association with my name for the proudest fortune avarice ever dreamed of.
Seite 65 - Goldsmiths, 5 that he might acquire the art of design from a friend of his. This was a great satisfaction to Filippo, who no long time after he had begun to study and practise in that art, understood the setting of precious stones much better than any old, artist in the vocation. He...
Seite 224 - Schiller, with an unwearied self-complacency, in which there was something mournful, and yet delightful. While I sat looking at the magnificent head of Schiller, the original of the multifarious casts and copies which are dispersed through all Germany, he sat down beside me, and taking my hands between his own, which trembled with age and nervous emotion, he began to speak of his friend. " Nous etions amis des l'enfance; aussi j'y ai travaille' avec amour, avec douleur — on ne peut pas plus faire.
Seite 225 - ... the expression I caught, — you see it here, — the head raised, the countenance full of inspiration, and affection, and bright hope ! I told him that to keep up this expression he must have some of his best friends to converse with him while I took the model, for I could not talk and work too. 0, if I could but remember what glorious things then fell from those lips ! Sometimes I stopped in my work, — I could not go on, — I could only listen...
Seite 290 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Seite 14 - The results were published in a spendid folio, in 1851. They may be briefly summed up thus. The lines which in ordinary architecture are straight, in the Doric temples at Athens are delicate curves. The edges of the steps and the lines of the entablatures are convex curves, lying in vertical planes, and nearly parallel, and the curves are conic sections, the middle of the stylobate rising several inches above the extremities. The external lines of the columns are curved also, forming a hyperbolic...
Seite 141 - I am anxious about them. I cannot help you in any other way, but do not, on this account, alarm yourself, and do not give yourself an ounce of melancholy; because if goods are lost life is not lost. I will do so much for you that it will be more than what you may now lose. But do not look forward to it too much, as it may fail. Nevertheless, do your best, and thank God that as this sorrow had to come, it came in a time when you were better able to help yourself than in times past. Think only of your...
Seite 75 - Donato seeing this, entreated him by the friendship existing between them, to say what he thought of it. Whereupon Filippo, who was exceedingly frank, replied, that...