The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 313
FIG. 576.—BUST OF A WOMAN.RODIN. (Mus^e du Luxembourg, Paris.) turned to Japan for lessons rather thanfor models. It prides itself on imi-tating nothing, on turning away alike … FIG. 577.—ST. JOHN BAPTIST.RODIN. (Mu.scc du Luxembourg, Paris.) from classic and Gothic tradition, onsubstituting individual expression, thematerialisation of thought, to theschematism of transmitted and conven-tional forms. It does not find beautyin elegance, but solely in the fitness,…
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