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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)
rings by Italian workmen. Such things are the fag-ends of statuary. His judgment, however, is clear and convincing in regard to the tinted Eves and Venuses of Gibson. Whatever may have been the ancient practice in this respect, Gibson's experiment proved a failure. Nobody likes those statues; and no other sculptor has since Gibson's experiment proved a failure. Nobody likes those statues; and no other sculptor has since followed Gibson's example. Hawthorne overestimates the Apollo Belvidere, as all the world did at that time; but his single remark concerning Canova is full of significance: In these precincts which Canova's genius was not quite of a character to render sacred, though it certainly made them interesting, etc. He goes to the sGibson's example. Hawthorne overestimates the Apollo Belvidere, as all the world did at that time; but his single remark concerning Canova is full of significance: In these precincts which Canova's genius was not quite of a character to render sacred, though it certainly made them interesting, etc. He goes to the statue gallery in the Vatican and returns with a feeling of dissatisfaction, and justly so, for the vast majority of statues there are merely copies, and many of them very bad copies. He recognizes the Laocoon for what it really is, the abstract type of a Greek tragedy. He notices what has since been proved by severe archaeologic