The British School of Sculpture; Illustrated by Twenty Engravings from the Finest Works of Deceased Masters of the Art, and Fifty Woodcuts. with a Pre by U S Government
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...treatment of subjects that will not bear formalising by any art, they are very complete. Blake began a series, which, apart from his limited power of drawing and his conventional typical way of representing old sages or young men or maids, promised to be the most truly imaginative and adequate to the subject. Dore's, we all know, are from the romantic point of view, and can scarcely be compared to any other. At the same time these were in progress, Flaxman, who seemed to have an impatience with fragments, even those of the Elgin marbles, set himself a task which was sure to disappoint himself and every one. This was the completion of the famous torso of Hercules, called by the contemporaries of the author's student years, par excellence " The Torso," and carefully drawn by them, all mutilated as it is. This mere fragment has excited an admiration beyond any other fragment, but for that very reason its restoration is the more hopeless, and as the peculiarity of it is muscular strength, prodigious though easy, it was not the best fitted for Flaxman's powers. He not only completed the Hercules, but he added an Omphale to form a group. This female adjunct he thought fit to contrast with the demi-god, and, according to all accounts, made her like a plaything in comparison, and when the idlers and the connoisseurs went to see the finished restoration there was no contentment expressed. This huge mass he brought home, however, and it was only shortly before his death that he came to the resolution--wise or not who can say?--of causing it to be destroyed. During those happy years, Eome, far away as it seemed from the vortex of things, began to feel uneasily that the great Eevolution uncoiling itself in Paris was not to leave it long in...
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