DOI Heft:
No. 56 (November, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0160
Studio- Talk
ance of the figures. However, despite all this, it is
a work of great personality, thought out and exe-
cuted with the most scrupulous care.
In addition to numerous busts, including those
of the Queen of the Belgians, and A. Struys the
painter, and several works of lesser importance, M.
Charlier displayed his beautiful low-reliefs, Pecheurs
halant leur barque, and Pecheurs revenant du Port,
which form portion of a scheme for a series of bas-
reliefs, to be surmounted by a Statue of a Fisher-
man, in honour of the "Toilers of the Sea."
F. K.
LORENCE.—Paolo Testi is among the
"1-^
j most active of Florentine artists. He
l was trained in the Accademia delle belle
Arti here in Florence, and devoted
himself first to painting, but after ob-
taining the first prize for work from the nude he
abandoned this branch of art for sculpture in
which, at the end of the year, he again carried off
the first prize. He next competed for and gained
the greatest prize given by the Accademia ; that bust of a boy by paolo testi
which has since been converted into a prix de
Pome.
technique, that makes Testi so excellent a portrait
It is probably his sympathetic intuition of feel- sculptor. " I love portrait modelling more than
ing, combined of course with his conscientious anything else," he said to me one day. "At one
time, when I had not much work
on hand, I used to lay my friends
under requisition and take them
one after another, an hour each,
sometimes for days at a stretch.
I find it intensely interesting to
try to give in clay an impression
of the characteristics of my sitters;
most attractive, too, to study the
physical idiosyncrasies which in-
dividualise them."
Working on these lines, Paolo
Testi produces portrait busts
which are remarkable for their
vivacity, their truth of impression,
their freedom of movement.
Among many others we may cite
as good examples the bust of
Paolo Ferrari, lately unveiled in
the School of Recitation in this
city; that of the painter Nicolo
Barabino, and a very fine medal-
lion of Dr. Alessandro Foresi, the
medallion by paolo testi late antiquarian. Visitors to
128
ance of the figures. However, despite all this, it is
a work of great personality, thought out and exe-
cuted with the most scrupulous care.
In addition to numerous busts, including those
of the Queen of the Belgians, and A. Struys the
painter, and several works of lesser importance, M.
Charlier displayed his beautiful low-reliefs, Pecheurs
halant leur barque, and Pecheurs revenant du Port,
which form portion of a scheme for a series of bas-
reliefs, to be surmounted by a Statue of a Fisher-
man, in honour of the "Toilers of the Sea."
F. K.
LORENCE.—Paolo Testi is among the
"1-^
j most active of Florentine artists. He
l was trained in the Accademia delle belle
Arti here in Florence, and devoted
himself first to painting, but after ob-
taining the first prize for work from the nude he
abandoned this branch of art for sculpture in
which, at the end of the year, he again carried off
the first prize. He next competed for and gained
the greatest prize given by the Accademia ; that bust of a boy by paolo testi
which has since been converted into a prix de
Pome.
technique, that makes Testi so excellent a portrait
It is probably his sympathetic intuition of feel- sculptor. " I love portrait modelling more than
ing, combined of course with his conscientious anything else," he said to me one day. "At one
time, when I had not much work
on hand, I used to lay my friends
under requisition and take them
one after another, an hour each,
sometimes for days at a stretch.
I find it intensely interesting to
try to give in clay an impression
of the characteristics of my sitters;
most attractive, too, to study the
physical idiosyncrasies which in-
dividualise them."
Working on these lines, Paolo
Testi produces portrait busts
which are remarkable for their
vivacity, their truth of impression,
their freedom of movement.
Among many others we may cite
as good examples the bust of
Paolo Ferrari, lately unveiled in
the School of Recitation in this
city; that of the painter Nicolo
Barabino, and a very fine medal-
lion of Dr. Alessandro Foresi, the
medallion by paolo testi late antiquarian. Visitors to
128