The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-05-08
Gossip from Rome.

correspondent 81 the New OK commercial
Advertiser, N \ recent letter from Rome groups
the following items in relation to American artists
After m uucummoniy d,sagrecable winter, the
sprrg has at length come upon US IN all it, at.
fractions. American Nl>lter- are pouring IN for
the season OF Easter Very few Of them, | re
greet to say, have given orders this winter to our
artists, which fact Of course, Is felt hy them q.
great Encouragement
Crawford Is getting on Hraco with h' colossal
statues for the " Washington Monument at Rich.
mond Va Patrick Henry aud Jefferson are rea.
dy for casting in bronze The Jefferson is cIcce.
DINGHY good Among all the drapcd statues here
mono, except q statue Of Minerva. at the Vatican
mprr.ses me so much rs TIN. tor its dignity
Freeman in preparing to visit tie United
State. with two large PICTURESQUE of the Ma.
rvs at the Scpulchrc, the other a rustic piece
both executed with great power In the sacred
piece he has desigucdly departed from the stan.
dard rules Of such competitions, but whether or
not he has made a conquest IA II new direction OF
art remains to be- seen. No one, however !
think. will deny him the evidence OF genius IN
tins attempt
Terry. who ia remarkably free from faults
goes on improving, and bids fair to reach high
point Of excellence Ills large piece # Cplum
and will be sent home til, spring. II goes 10 Dos
ton.
Moler has statue in clay Of rocNhontns, for
which he has already received two orders at g.
600 each The piece j. exceedingly praised ty
the CORES ondcut Of the London Y ines
Ives has statue IN plaster Of Spring highly
esteemed by the artists. lie ask, $1,000 fur II
but ha, no order for tyet To appreciate H.,
sprlng OF Ives, one must know something If gc
neral ar. bnt every one can read in the rocahou
tas an impressive story. The accessories a
the cro-s, and the tame deer, with the familiar
history ur the daughter NJ ruwhatan. will CIV,
this work doubt not, great popularity m H.,
United states. II Ives would give hi- fine tai
cnt 10 some thoroughly American and INSTRUCTIVE,
subject ike thu. h. fortune would soon =. made
Bartholomew. q Young sculptor, from Hart ford
has been remarkably successful IN getting order
,ls winter. Although but = beginner. and ma
kins only has rclels, he haa obtained high pr
crs or his few pieces lheroa-ou is that his sub
jectsarc touching lie makes his mr., trihutar
to noble sentiment, and therefore deserves pc
culiar encouragement. Happily Mr. Il. has de
cided talent in h.s profession. The artists u
not bcgrudse him his extraordinary good fpr
tune.
Rogers 10 cutting out modes, md bcaut
l4l INLtu WIN L't elithi-t WIN, WACO, " III
l-hcd for the proposed great exhibition in Me-
York, would give HIM = most desirable kind
fame. There are some other sculptor' here a
work upon perfectly nude figures. to which the
give sacred and classic names, but which tru,
will never he anything more in the ewes Of An
crican amateur, than vulgar exposures Of the +,
male f,rm. Happily they have not sufficient a
tslic fame to give them fame AMI bad influence
There j. No political news Of interest to sen
you just now,
In the way Of novelty however. NAV 81
that a Bostonlnn. who is pcrsunjed that he In
mission to convert the Pope has teen larel
holin. forth in English, from the steps of chu
cLg', and on the Ppricinn Hill to the Roma
people. lie ha. been arrested once, hut was r,
leased upon the engagement of Nr. Cass to b
responsible for him, but lie renewed his wor
only two hours after recovering his freedom
He ia now doiging the police, who will be sur
think, to arrest him in the coarse OF the da
+ 1t does not appear to be perfectly clear To u
Tn US whether this il madness or u freak
transccndcntaism. One thing il certain, hov
ever, it is a very crpedtius way Of getting lin
, self out Of ItBly.