ness, the abstract seren-ity, the repose, of the Greek masterpieces they left to be ex-pounded by the perspicacity of modern criticism. The great sculptors of the fifteenth century and their suc-cessors in modern times have shown by triumphant examplesthat the expression of moral life, of the most… … MODERN FRENCH SCULPTURE. 235 •sionate artists of the Renaissance are more closely interestingthan Phidias or Praxiteles, for the simple reason that they ex-press the emotions and troubles of modern man. In the worksof Donatello first, and then in those of Michael Angelo andJohn of Bologna, we find…
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