. BBTH Lli mi; ad jK-rtas fr wUil dupla columna. 'KiX^' 7C1/ aTct V >*^cs ur-::i s\tSi. Hlc calvum ad rfnciratn IrHli rapilt ore rrt-linal â ^ililliini ad l3,*\:*iii vmi la (eriom Uifltintli!: liuur clt Smiiim fed utruniqtic labfm^iu. Kl g Uu<l:u utrttjur furor. Fig. 2.âGIBBER'S " .'VND M.\; Formerly over the gates of Bedlam, now in the Guildhall Museum. Westminster Abbey came to be regarded as the natural resting-place of the man of letters. \\'ith these conditions, these openings for employ- ment, temporary and permanent, in our minds, we
. BBTH Lli mi; ad jK-rtas fr wUil dupla columna. 'KiX^' 7C1/ aTct V >*^cs ur-::i s\tSi. Hlc calvum ad rfnciratn IrHli rapilt ore rrt-linal â ^ililliini ad l3,*\:*iii vmi la (eriom Uifltintli!: liuur clt Smiiim fed utruniqtic labfm^iu. Kl g Uu<l:u utrttjur furor. Fig. 2.âGIBBER'S " .'VND M.\; Formerly over the gates of Bedlam, now in the Guildhall Museum. Westminster Abbey came to be regarded as the natural resting-place of the man of letters. \\'ith these conditions, these openings for employ- ment, temporary and permanent, in our minds, we may briefly discuss the history and achievement of our century of English sculptors. Edward Pierce, the son of a man of the same name, " Citizen and painter-stainer of London," was working under the Commonwealth and did not die till i6g8. His known output is unfortunately small, but like that of Stone before him, andCibber, Gibbons, and Bird after him, is both architectural and sculp- tural. His earliest works are the superb bust of Oliver Cromwell recentlv acquired bv the .Ashmolean became the colleague both of Wren and Bird. For the former he carved the four dragons on the Monu- ment; as " mason " he assisted to build St. Clement Danes; and above all he produced that glorious bust, now like the Cromwell at the Ashmolean Museum, of which Vertue wrote in his characteristically bad grammar and spelling, " In Bodleyan Gallery the Bust in Marble of Sir Chrisf Wren done by . . Pierce the Same person as my moddel of ; This is the finest bust of purely Bernincsque' type in 1 Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), the founder of the late florid style of art and architecture known as Baroque, was incom- parably the greatest architect and sculptor of his century, and his influence all over Europe was supreme until the days.
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