Augustus Saint-Gaudens . :,<yy. Jhen Ci>pyrif/, Mil /y <V/ know IS that it is such conceptions as this that light theway of kings to dusty death. I have seen it more thanonce, under different conditions. It is impressive in sun-shine, confronting happy nature with its sombre on a bleak winters day or in rain, its mournful charmis heightened; and here, one reflects, far beyond the mea-sure of any other of his compositions, Saint-Gaudens isthe poet, the dramatist, intermingling with the concretequalities of plastic art the more elusive qualities of mindand soul.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens . :,<yy. Jhen Ci>pyrif/, Mil /y <V/ know IS that it is such conceptions as this that light theway of kings to dusty death. I have seen it more thanonce, under different conditions. It is impressive in sun-shine, confronting happy nature with its sombre on a bleak winters day or in rain, its mournful charmis heightened; and here, one reflects, far beyond the mea-sure of any other of his compositions, Saint-Gaudens isthe poet, the dramatist, intermingling with the concretequalities of plastic art the more elusive qualities of mindand soul. I have thought, standing before this great work,of certain masters in French sculpture. I have recalledDubois, in one of his figures for the tomb of GeneralLamoriciere; Rodin, in divers of his hierophantic impro-visations, and several remarkable statues by colleaguesof theirs, men on a lower plane, but still eminent. Noneof these foreigners has, in my opinion, ever modelleda statue at once so simple and so full of meaning as thiso
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