foreign destination, two in particular call formention. One is a monument to Barclay de Tollyat Riga, the Baltic seaport. It is a bronze statuenearly twenty feet high on a granite pedestal, andthe general effect is very impressive. The sculptorsent in three designs for this competition and… … Americans, Karl Schurz, Emil Praetorius and KarlDaenzer. This monument, called The Naked Truth,was for a long time the subject of public discussionand both among artists and the general public gaverise to a heated controversy—in fact it was onlythrough the energetic advocacyof its champions and the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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