Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . XLIX) is an ideal figure, well knownbecause of the immense reputation of themonument to which it belongs, that beauti-ful tomb of the general Juchault de la Mori-ciere, of which the architectural dispositionis due to the refined genius of the architectBoitte. The famous and admirable sculp-tor, Paul Dubois, is one of the Academics,the chief of those who follow the traditionsof the French school, in doing this neitherworse nor better as an artist. To say thathe is this is merely to account in part forthe severity of his compositions
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . XLIX) is an ideal figure, well knownbecause of the immense reputation of themonument to which it belongs, that beauti-ful tomb of the general Juchault de la Mori-ciere, of which the architectural dispositionis due to the refined genius of the architectBoitte. The famous and admirable sculp-tor, Paul Dubois, is one of the Academics,the chief of those who follow the traditionsof the French school, in doing this neitherworse nor better as an artist. To say thathe is this is merely to account in part forthe severity of his compositions and theabsence from all of them of any very boldand new departure towards undiscov-ered realms. Let us note then, the methodsof an artist taught in the schools whichmake Greek perfection of modelling theiraim, but Italian grace of the Renaissance asecondary object, using indeed the less re-mote experience of Italy in the fifteenthcentury to supply that missing knowledgeof the many modifications of Greek sculp-ture which assuredly existed, though we of[170].
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