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Chapter V The Statue of the Bust and the Ideal Figure
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AMERICAN SCULPTURE
US
probably have a place for a new pro-
fession, that of the well-trained cus-
todian of statues. The first attempts
in this work will not in the nature of
things be as destructive as were the
labors of the old-time picture-restorer,
so-called, a personage long reviled for
his ignorant or dishonest acts, but now
becoming extinct. And what a boon
it would be if this statue-custodian of
the future, with a body of intelligent
criticism behind him, could be de-
pended upon for judicious removals
as well as for faithful guardianship!
This liberating thought is brought to
the attention of all Municipal Art
Commissions.
V
Among appealing portraits in the
Louvre is Ghirlandaio’s Priest and
Boy. Whatever might be hideous in
its realism is at once atoned for by
something singularly lovely. The
THE IDEAL FIGURE
US
probably have a place for a new pro-
fession, that of the well-trained cus-
todian of statues. The first attempts
in this work will not in the nature of
things be as destructive as were the
labors of the old-time picture-restorer,
so-called, a personage long reviled for
his ignorant or dishonest acts, but now
becoming extinct. And what a boon
it would be if this statue-custodian of
the future, with a body of intelligent
criticism behind him, could be de-
pended upon for judicious removals
as well as for faithful guardianship!
This liberating thought is brought to
the attention of all Municipal Art
Commissions.
V
Among appealing portraits in the
Louvre is Ghirlandaio’s Priest and
Boy. Whatever might be hideous in
its realism is at once atoned for by
something singularly lovely. The
THE IDEAL FIGURE