Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subscriptions were taken up with the purpose of erecting a monument to Colonel Shaw's memory. The City of Boston gave a piece of ground on the Park St. end of the Common, opposite the State house, as a site for the monument. Mr. St. Gaudens was chosen as sculptor...
Horatio Greenough, 1825, Sculptor...
...very strong and impresses itself into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give what Michael Angelo did, that is the imprint of a strong individuality, and accordingly none of them...
...broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about all art that comes anywhere near perfection which commands respect and admiration; and the man who represents this best art, whether he be painter, sculptor, musician or actor, must be looked upon with a certain veneration. This veneration is very much increased, too, if the man in question, besides being a great artist, has qualities in his own nature which make him attractive and worthy of respect. Mr. Irving has this double charm of the artist...
...have shown, then, that our people are ready for their great sculptor; that the conditions of life with us are in the main there necessary to the production of a great art. We are learning to look upon the nude form in the way that Greece regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form...