Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 237
rt ofhuman sculpture. The herdsman needshis oxen, the hunter his stags and all therest of it, but rarely has it been the casethat sculpture has dealt with the bull, thehorse, the elephant as the prime subjects ofits work. Antiquity knew such sculptureas this, a fact which has been revealed to usby… … Recent Art, Part I, Form place ; and it really was a bold thing forBarye to fill the middle of the nineteenthcentury with his struggling and prowlingbeasts of prey—works which he alternatedwith highly classical groups of athletes andcentaurs. Nor was Barye left long alone inthis pursuit. The…
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