Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Satan of Milton and the Mephistopheles of Goe the were to remain forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...
...trustees of Cornell College have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university. The work has been interested to the American sculptor, Story, who is at present in Italy...
...natural, and being a little larger than life to allow for its being slightly elevated, the effect is absolutely noble. The opinion concerning the bust is that as a work of art it is excelled by none other in the Abbey, and is the chef d'oeuvre of the sculptor, Thomas Brock, A, R. A. No greater expression of the high esteem with which the English people regard the memory of Longfellow could be shown than the placing of this bust in the Poets' Corner, he being the only person thus honored who was not a British-born subject...
...trustees of Cornell have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university, from the American sculptor. Story, who is now working in Rome...
...Boston statues. If John Winthrop could come back and see the mass of metal representing himself on Scollay Square, what would he think? Remember however, that the ideal can never transcend the real. As far as man's high gifts can supply the want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. It shows us a young scholar in the academic garb of his time, gently touched by the sickness which was undermining his miniature life. He rests his hand on the open tome between his knees, and gazes for a moment...