DOI Heft:
Nr. 335 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:Rosse, Helena S.: Statuary in the garden
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0048
mceRnACionAL
FOUNTAIN FIGURE BY ANNA C. LADD
rare case where the artisan has produced a little faun figure, also found in Pompei, has been used
wooden statue or leaden one which has the primi- over and over again in modern gardens and seems
tive charm of the dadaistic art lover, and some- suited to many different situations; it holds its
times the very smartness of the technique may own in combination with rather heavy architec-
give a certain charm to a basket of fruit cut in tural features and looks equally well in the gay
stone or a dolphin cast in bronze, but usually the centre of a bright flower garden. Another faun
best looking statuary is the conscious work of of the same type is arranged as a fountain which
first rate artists. spouts water from a pouch which he carries in his
Suitable for adorning our present day gardens arm. Besides these there are numerous cupids,
as well as those of Pompei, are the smaller of the some of them arranged for fountains, some of
classical Roman statues, of which excellent casts them just little statues, and as they are all the
can be procured. There is the beautiful Narcissus same size and just differ in attitude and detail,
from Pompei, now in the museum at Naples, only they can very successfully be used together, in
slightly over two feet high, of which fine replicas corresponding places in the same garden. Apart
in several smaller sizes can be had. The dancing from these small figures there are the replicas of
forty-eight
APRIL
FOUNTAIN FIGURE BY ANNA C. LADD
rare case where the artisan has produced a little faun figure, also found in Pompei, has been used
wooden statue or leaden one which has the primi- over and over again in modern gardens and seems
tive charm of the dadaistic art lover, and some- suited to many different situations; it holds its
times the very smartness of the technique may own in combination with rather heavy architec-
give a certain charm to a basket of fruit cut in tural features and looks equally well in the gay
stone or a dolphin cast in bronze, but usually the centre of a bright flower garden. Another faun
best looking statuary is the conscious work of of the same type is arranged as a fountain which
first rate artists. spouts water from a pouch which he carries in his
Suitable for adorning our present day gardens arm. Besides these there are numerous cupids,
as well as those of Pompei, are the smaller of the some of them arranged for fountains, some of
classical Roman statues, of which excellent casts them just little statues, and as they are all the
can be procured. There is the beautiful Narcissus same size and just differ in attitude and detail,
from Pompei, now in the museum at Naples, only they can very successfully be used together, in
slightly over two feet high, of which fine replicas corresponding places in the same garden. Apart
in several smaller sizes can be had. The dancing from these small figures there are the replicas of
forty-eight
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