Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 185
over which broods the vast in-fluence of Michelangelo ; but he is not afollower of Michelangelo, not one of thecrowd of imitators who tried to find hisstrength in his exaggeration. This artist is best known to our owntimes by his famous Flying Mercury,the statue in the National Museum ofFlorence… … Plate XXVIII.—VIEW in loggia dei lanzi, Florence, the rape of the SABINES, AND HERCULES KILLING A CENTAUR. BY GIOVANNI DA BOLOGNA.THE STATUE BEYOND IS AN ANTinUE. Italian Decadence—French Transition to be considered as really in flight, onlybound by the necessities of hard and heavymatter to be…
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