Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 68
one piece the full face and the three-quarter face and the profile of the King, from whichPietro Bernini, the Italian sculptor (1562-1629)made a bust, that was consumed or stolen in thelire of Whitehall. It was on seeing this picturethat Bernini pronounced, as is well known, thatthere was something… … and at the foot of the marble statues, in all thosiplaces, in fact, which some of the artists of theage of Louis XIV, represented at Windsor, hadbeautified at their kings command. A close studyof cVArgenvilles Lives of the French Sculptorsmight reveal particulars of the large oiiginal of…
