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Browere's life masks of great Americans (1899)

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918 · [New York] Printed at the De Vinne press for Doubleday and McClure company · leaf 27

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al use untilthe middle of the fifteenth century, when Andrea Verocchio, themost noted pupil of Donatello, and the instructor of Peruginiand of Leonardo da Vinci, followed it with such success as tolead Vasari, Bottari, and others to ascribe to him its invention.It was this art of taking casts from… … IEFORE entering upon the subject of Browereand his life masks, it seems proper, if not ac-tually necessary, to take a survey of the devel-opment of the plastic art in that part of Americanow embraced within the limits of the UnitedStates, prior to the time of Browere, so as to understand…

Browere, John Henri Isaac, 1792-1834 · Masks (Sculpture) · Sculpture, American

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