Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 134
increase therelative height of his figures for a definitepurpose. He would think himself free todo so—it does not follow that he wouldalways use the privilege. For let thisbe considered : when a certain equestrianstatue was exhibited about the last year ofthe nineteenth century and it was notedthat… … The European Middle Ages belly of the horse, this wholly untruthfulrepresentation of the facts of nature wasdefended by the sculptor and by hisfriends, on the ground of the unusuallygreat stature of the officer whose portraitwas in hand, and the supposed necessityof insisting on the fact of the…
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