Title | Scraps from an artist's sketchbook |
Alternative Title | Scraps from an artist's sketch book, with illustrations from the author's original sketches in Rome, Florence, and Venice , photographed by J. Greer, Pendleton |
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Publisher | Daily Chronicle |
Date | 1877 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 118 pages; 12 leaves; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DG427 .R68 1877 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b2395052~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_003 |
Title | Page 62 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_078.jpg |
Transcript | 62 FLORENCE. was working in the Palace Gardens of the Medici, as a mason's assistant, and having found a piece of old marble, a portion of a balustrade, with a shield upon it, which had been thrown aside, commenced cutting out this mask, and was thus found employed by Lorenzo de Medici, who at once saw the great talent of young Angelo, took him under his charge, and gave him his son as a companion, and from this fostering care rose the genius who created the Moses and the David, works which it is impossible for us to write upon ; any words we could use would fall so short of giving an idea of their power and grandeur. The David formerly stood at the door of the Palazzio Vecchio. It was thought to be suffering from long exposure to the weather, and was removed to the Gallery of Fine Arts, where we had the pleasure of seeing it a few days ago in a temporary building, but on the site it will in future occupy in a magnificent gallery, worthy of such a matchless production that will be looked at for all time as the greatest work of the sculptor, who alone rivalled Phidias. With this digression we |