Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . He isalso at liberty to stop where he is really no check upon him in thatdirection ; and if Mr. Caniez had fanciedthat he could make a better hero of theField of Rocroy than that which contem-porary portraits had preserved for him, hewould have felt at liberty to study his ownconceptions rather than the bust namedabove, or the one preserved at , then, this piece as an ideal sculp-ture, intended to express that kind of hero-ism which we accept as being of the time oftransition between the Middle Ages
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . He isalso at liberty to stop where he is really no check upon him in thatdirection ; and if Mr. Caniez had fanciedthat he could make a better hero of theField of Rocroy than that which contem-porary portraits had preserved for him, hewould have felt at liberty to study his ownconceptions rather than the bust namedabove, or the one preserved at , then, this piece as an ideal sculp-ture, intended to express that kind of hero-ism which we accept as being of the time oftransition between the Middle Ages andmodern times, that shifty, dexterous, polit-ical heroism which knew how to be boldand effective at the right time, and at theright time knew how to defer to royalty, toplay the courtier, to seize without hesitationon advantages which might offer them-selves. Ideal portraiture has always beeninteresting, and many sculptors have pre-ferred it, it would almost seem, to all otherforms of the sculptors art. Take oneof a different character, the monument[152]. Plate XL.—IDEAL PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE OK CONUE, VICTOR OF ROCROYj15Y CANIEZ. Recent Art, Part II, Sentiment to Gaspard de Coligny (Plate XLI). Thiswork is on the north side of the Ruede Rivoli at Paris, part of the apseof the Oratoire, and therefore is monu-mental sculpture. As such we might con-sider it in a future chapter, but, as forour present purpose, the ideal portrait ismuch the most important part of the wholegroup. This might be treated with unre-served dignity as a statue altogether heroic ;because those who care for the famousadmiral, the first and most celebrated victimof the Massacre of St. Bartholomews Eve,care for him very much, and, in a certainfashion as for the hero of their cause. It istreated in a way far more abstract than thatwhich is allowed to the Conde. Even thecostume is handled with reserve, thoughmost carefully studied from the monumentsof the time. With these is to be compared a piece asimport
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