Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 386
d downat last to the statue of Moses thrust out of the way in thechurch of S. Pietro ad Vincula. What we possess of thesculptors achievement is a torso of his huge designs. Giulios tomb, as he conceived it, would have been themost stupendous monument of sculpture in the world.That mountain of… … MOSES, S. PIETRO IN VINCOLI, ROMEBy Michelangelo MOSES 293 of mortality. All that dignifies humanity—arts, sciences,and laws; the victory that crowns heroic effort; the majestyof contemplation, and the energy of action—was symbolizedupon ascending piers of the great pyramid; while the geniiof…
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