Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 113
greatest mastersof an art worthy ofthe best efforts of suchmen as Cafneri andClodion. But before survey-ing the masterpiecesof French eighteenth-century art, we mustremember that Italyis the true home ofbronze sculpture, andthat we have one ortwo important Italiangroups to describe.For the proper… … RAPE OF THE SABINES.{Bronze of Bolognas Marble.) or patina which is the collectors delight, butrather, as in our London statues, to an accretionof mere smoke and dirt. Moreover, it was in Italythat the re-discovery of innumerable antique frag-ments caused such an enthusiasm for works inbronze. The…
