. A short history of art . A. liODIX LK of clemcntiil ])0\\<i iiiul niilimcntnry JOHX THE BAPTIST The naturtilistic composition of a viiionary. FRENCH SCULPTURE OF 19th CENTURY 631 nature, of comprehending what can be done with what hesees, and so of conceiving a design that is not to be seenin nature. It is here that the abstract principles of mathe-matics help him, and then there comes a point when thelaws of mathematics and all the assistance of reflection fail,and it is upon taste alone that reliance can be placed. In his youth he commenced La Porte de
. A short history of art . A. liODIX LK of clemcntiil ])0\\<i iiiul niilimcntnry JOHX THE BAPTIST The naturtilistic composition of a viiionary. FRENCH SCULPTURE OF 19th CENTURY 631 nature, of comprehending what can be done with what hesees, and so of conceiving a design that is not to be seenin nature. It is here that the abstract principles of mathe-matics help him, and then there comes a point when thelaws of mathematics and all the assistance of reflection fail,and it is upon taste alone that reliance can be placed. In his youth he commenced La Porte de IEnfer, towhich ever since he has been adding. It is the plastic recordof his emotional, intellectual, and artistic development, andwill be finished, but not completed, by his death. Of hisgreat conceptions, fully wrought out, the masterpiece ofhis middle life is the memorial to Victor Hugo, which wasintended for the Pantheon, but finally placed in the Luxem-bourg Gardens. Another niasterpiece, one of his richest, most profoundcreations, is the group of the Burghers of Calais, emaci-ated with hunger. This, Rodin
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