American masters of sculpture, being brief appreciations of some American sculptors, and of some phases of sculpture in America (1913)
Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Doubleday, Page & Co. · leaf 128
h the statuewas to be finished. For, while marble permits agreat variety of surface effects and delicate con-trasts of light and shade, the essential suggestionof bronze is its hardness, and consequently itsspecial capacity is to express structure and action,bone and muscle. In this * Michelangelo… … MICHELANGELOBy Paul Weyland Bartlett Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. PAUL WEYLAND BARTLETT 93 main concern is structural, even the leatherapron playing no inconsiderable part in the strong,stalwart frugality of the whole treatment. This instinct for the special qualities of bronzehas led…
Sculptors · Sculpture, American
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