Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . ey are in bronze, in marble^in terra-cotta, or simply in the plaster caststaken from the original clay model. The question of sentiment combined withportraiture is well set forth in the famousand really important relief by Dalou (PlateLV), in which is recorded the resistance ofthe Tiers Etat, or the popular branch ofthe States General, when in 1789 it wasundertaken by the court to snufF them out—them and their attempts at universal re-form—by sending workmen to break upthe room and provide for some fandangoof the court. It was the
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . ey are in bronze, in marble^in terra-cotta, or simply in the plaster caststaken from the original clay model. The question of sentiment combined withportraiture is well set forth in the famousand really important relief by Dalou (PlateLV), in which is recorded the resistance ofthe Tiers Etat, or the popular branch ofthe States General, when in 1789 it wasundertaken by the court to snufF them out—them and their attempts at universal re-form—by sending workmen to break upthe room and provide for some fandangoof the court. It was the 23d of June, andthe king had just left the hall, havingissued the most peremptory command thatthe Three Orders of the States Generalshould meet separately, each in its ownhall. Meantime the workmen had alreadycome in to remove the benches. The Mar-quis de Dreux-Breze, who was then masterof ceremonies, came in and asked the presi-dent if he had not heard the order of theking. To this the president, Bailli, an-swered that he had no power to disperse[ ISO ]. as a > < Recent Art, Part II, Sentiment the assembly without its order. Mirabeau,one of the deputies, came to the front ofthe presidents table and, speaking directlyto the master of ceremonies, reminded himthat he had no right of speech or even ofpresence in the assembly, and that his or-ders could not be listened to. This epi-sode, one of the most important and re-markable in modern history as the com-mencement of the world of modern politics,the breaking down of privilege and the in-stallation of democracy, is rendered herewith entire fidelity to surroundings, to cos-tume, to the passions and interests at stake,and even to fidelity of portraiture; forthere is no reason to doubt the belief com-monly held among artists and students inFrance, that all, or nearly all, of the headsare studies carefully made from the stillpreserved portraits of the time. [181] CHAPTER IX RECENT ART, PART III, MONUMENTAL EFFECT It is said
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