DOI Heft:
No. 94 (January, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0302
Studio- Talk
THE SriRITS OF YOUTH WEEPING AT THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG POET BY LEONARDO BISTOLFI
dominate, and it is one of the most interesting to attempt to " fix" those ideas in plastic form,
points about him that he should have endeavoured through the medium of a series of monumental
to realise them by plastic methods. This tendency works of the highest interest. Thus, not without
of his led him quite early in the direction of reason, has he more than once been styled
allegory and symbolism, especially to the con- " Le Sculpteur de la Mort."
sideration, in all its various aspects, of the problem
of death and the life beyond ; it inspired him also Bistolfi was born at Casale Monferrato
PLASTER MODEL FOR A MONUMENT
BY LEONARDO BISTOLFI
THE SriRITS OF YOUTH WEEPING AT THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG POET BY LEONARDO BISTOLFI
dominate, and it is one of the most interesting to attempt to " fix" those ideas in plastic form,
points about him that he should have endeavoured through the medium of a series of monumental
to realise them by plastic methods. This tendency works of the highest interest. Thus, not without
of his led him quite early in the direction of reason, has he more than once been styled
allegory and symbolism, especially to the con- " Le Sculpteur de la Mort."
sideration, in all its various aspects, of the problem
of death and the life beyond ; it inspired him also Bistolfi was born at Casale Monferrato
PLASTER MODEL FOR A MONUMENT
BY LEONARDO BISTOLFI