This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...commenced when its practice was directed to please the sense and supply objects of excitement, in what may be called "sensuous" sculpture, instead of addressing the nobler sentiments, as had been done by Phidias and his severer school. The object of this essay being the history of sculpture, and not the biography of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...commenced when its practice was directed to please the sense and supply objects of excitement, in what may be called "sensuous" sculpture, instead of addressing the nobler sentiments, as had been done by Phidias and his severer school. The object of this essay being the history of sculpture, and not the biography of sculptors, it is not possible to do more than touch generally upon individual artists; and that only in their character of leaders of schools. Otherwise the fame and extensive practice of Praxiteles would fully warrant a much more extended notice than is here afforded to so distinguished a master. Antiquaries and scholars have differed respecting the precise time at which Praxiteles lived. It is not very material in a general history, as enough is certainly known to fix his date within a few years, and to shew the direct succession of the great leaders of the schools of sculpture. This must have Ancient Inedited Monuments of Grecian Art, No. x. p. 7. been between the 106th and the 124th Olympiad; that is, in parts of the fourth and third centuries before Christ. It has before been mentioned that his name is found among the sculptors who were employed to decorate the magnificent tomb which was erected by Artemisia in memory of her husband Mausolus. Praxiteles had many scholars, and he left two sons, Timarchus and Cephisodotus, who were also sculptors. It is satisfactory to be able to direct the attention of the professed artist and the student to authentic works existing in England, illustrative of the great schools of sculpture. Already reference has been made to some of these, as the sculptures of the Eginetan school, of the Parthenon by Phidias, the Phigaleian marbles, and, lastly, the extensive remains from Halicarnassus. But there ...
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