Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 138
chance of immortality. Thor-waldsen, the greatest sculptor sinceMichael Angelo, exemplified thistruth to a remarkable degree.Moved by a realization of classicart which no other modern sculptorexcept Flax man has approached,we yet find his classical subjectsinferior to those allegorical subjectsin… … eve before the fall.—[hiraji powers.] evident in recent sculpture, especially in the emotional and sometimessensational sculpture of France. Lacking repose, it is yet fresh and orig-inal, and is destined by continued self-assertion to reach a high rank. It is in imitations of the antique or in…
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