Painters and sculptors represented only corporeal beauty: there was no expression in the figures of Phidias or Parrhasius.
Churches and chapels were appended to the hospitals, and, as a matter of course, the painters and sculptors were called upon to decorate them.
This is a portion of science; and it has been found needful to impart it for the prevention of those many errors which sculptors who do not possess it commit.
But sculptors unfamiliar with the theory of equilibrium, not uncommonly so represent this attitude, that the line of direction falls midway between the feet.
In portraying these, the artists and sculptors do not always slavishly follow tradition or uniformity.
This stone was largely used in the buildings of Carthage and Rome, but the quarries which yielded it were not known to modern sculptorsuntil 1849, when it was rediscovered near Oued-Abdallah.
Among statuary marbles the first place may be assigned to the famous Pentelic marble, the material in which Pheidias, Praxiteles, and other Greek sculptors executed their principal works.
Parian marble, another stone much used by Greek sculptors and architects, was quarried in the isle of Paros, chiefly at Mount Marpessa.
Carrara marble is better known than any of the Greek marbles, inasmuch as it constitutes the stone invariably employed by the best sculptors of the present day.
Magistri Comacini is a title frequently inscribed upon deeds and charters of the earlier middle ages, as synonymous with sculptors and architects.
Without the force and purpose of a Roman, Lorenzo set himself to copy Plutarch's men--just as sculptors carved Neptunes and Apollos without the dignity and serenity of the classic style.
The sculptors have dealt fairly with all, and not one has the lineaments of utter baseness.
The very imperfection of his flesh-painting repeats in colour what the greatest Lombard sculptors sought in stone--a sharpness of relief that passes over into angularity.
Then I enjoyed a spectacle which sculptorsmight have envied.
The modern painters and sculptors are far better and grander than the ancient.
They sculptors of our century stand before the miracles of the Greeks in impotent wonder.
So we can get along without painters, without sculptors and without poets.
We are not the greatest painters or sculptors or scientists, but we are without doubt the greatest inventors.
In addition to these works, that garden was full of torsi of men and women, which were a school not only for Mariotto, but for all the sculptors and painters of his time.
A number of contemporary sculptors have taken inspiration from folk art for their often massive works in wood.
In the period between the two world wars, several sculptors produced large monumental works visible in public places.
Best known of all Romanian sculptors is Constantin Brancusi, who is considered one of the great sculptors of the world.
Among the earliest sculptors he trained were Ion Georgescu and his own son, Carol Storck, both known for their statuary and busts.
He was not conversant with art, for the great sculptors and painters had not then arisen.
They have exacted the patience of the greatest painters and most talented sculptors for a full century in portraying them, as well as taxed the ingenuity of the noblest tailors in constructing them.
On the other hand, there have been sculptors who strive hard for sartorial realism.
And that is the great problem for the sculptors of the twentieth century.
Designs of Amminati and Philip Baldinucci, two of the most famous Sculptors at that Time.
The Egyptian sculptorshad thus depicted Isis; the first form of the Virgin and child was the counterpart of Isis and Horus.
Wellington Ruckstuhl, one of the foremost sculptors of America, as we sat in his studio looking up at his huge figure of “Force.
The artist felt a thrill of elevation as he repeated in eloquent succession Greek names, many of which were mere sounds to him, for he was not certain whether they were great sculptors or tragic poets.
There had been, on the part of both sculptors and painters, a constant study of the antique; but during the Giottesque period this study had been limited to technicalities, and had in no way affected the conception of art.
Under Sargon and Sennacherib, the sculptors became more experienced and more ambitious.
The ambitions of her architects and sculptors were as high and noble as those of the artists who flourished at the court of the Pharaohs, and the staged towers were the equals of the Pyramids.
In absence of native sculptors of eminence, the plastic art never was much cherished in our duchy, and few commissions were given, except for decorative or monumental purposes.
Antonio Rossellino and Mino da Fiesole may be classed together as sculptors to whom decorative effect was of first importance; they loved line and form for their intrinsic beauty.
The Italian sculptors of the earlier half of the fifteenth century are more than mere forerunners of the great masters of its close, and often reach perfection within the narrow limits which they chose to impose on their work.
Of the many fine works of this class in Tuscany each of these twosculptors contributed at least one of the best examples.
Jacopo della Quercia was one of the oldest of the sculptors whose work extended into the fifteenth century, being already twenty-five years of age when that century began.
It was from this little district of Tuscany that the sculptors came forth who have helped to make Italy famous as the birthplace of modern art.
The material bearing on the sculptors illustrated in this present collection is found in his volume devoted to "Les Primitifs" (Paris, 1889).
It is superfluous to point out that the sweetness of these sculptors is perilously near the insipid, their grace too often formal.
It is a brief survey, critical and interpretative, of the principal works of the most prominent Florentine sculptors of the period, with some account of the characteristics of the early and later Renaissance work.
At the time when this work was executed (1462) painters and sculptors had just begun to represent the Christ child undraped.
His lives of the early Italian painters and sculptors up to his own time, the sixteenth century, though full of traditional gossip, are invaluable as graphic chronicles of much interesting information which would otherwise have been lost.
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