Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new (1907)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 298
it is absurd to make full-length statues of men whosebodies count for nothing in their fame and whosecostumes are ugly and unsculpturesque. VictorHugo had been transformed by the artist into a kindof nude sea-god, but Balzacs well-known physicalpeculiarities precluded such treatment, and his… … si^ RODIN: THOUGHT THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOn, LENOX AND TILDEN FOU.MOATlOrJ.; R 1934 L RODIN 151 it was to be, the problem was to find some methodof concentrating the attention upon the head. Rodinhad made a vigorous bronze study for this head,already mentioned, but in the statue he seems to…
Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498 · Pollaiolo, Piero, ca. 1443-1496 · Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 · Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 · Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 · Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 · Art
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