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hehuman figure in proportions and in form,the only variation coming in surface treat-ment; the Greeks generally simplifying an-atomical elements, the Renaissance Italiansgenerally anatomizing to the full, withMichelangelo exemphfying the supremeanatomist. Literature has built up the repu-tation of… … MOTHER AND CHILD—Carved direct in Indiana Limestone Warren Cheney, Sculptor for manly beauty—the inference being thatbeauty in sculpture is the idealization of thebeauty in the human form. The functionof the true sculptor, however, ancient ormodern, is not to copy form, but to createform. The…
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