Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-17
SOMETHING OF SCULPTURE.

We find a -erv interesting letter in tht
New York Evening Post of April S i
which Rome correspondent Of tht
U0r'd is taken To tasll for making th'
statenlant that a certain italian nance
Sisnor Piatti Lazaroni assisted Nj,
Story ard Hiss Hosnler 70 model on
works which these sculptcrs issued IS
their own" This assertion ia Indig.
naGtly denounced rs the work Of ''sithel
4 very ignorant AMI vulgar person. or q
knaye :" and the wr.te in the Pos: IN:
n;shes the following interesting f&cts as
to the manner in vhich the art OF scuIp-
;ure finds expression at the hands Of Its
masters. Says he:
When sculptor designs a figure AMI
makes the small model. as the large
statue is intended to he. his work is
done Ali after that is copying, neasar-
| ing and mechanical This Is not GeneT-
| ally known. Ii is said that Ctnova
! made seven hundred statutes. lie may
have designed that number. but he never
could have found time. even. i'll his long
| career, to cut or inc1el 50 many. He
employed assistants. rs every sculptor
must who has more than he can 90 with
| his own hands.
Thorwaldsen never made more than
| small rude sketches for his colossal
| figures of the twelve apostles. HIS
| helpers worked out his ideas. He came
every morning into the modelling room
| TO correct aud suggest as the works pro-
crossed. If this correspondent does not
know these things. he should not write
| letters impugning the honesty of artists,
and, by usurping a place which belongs
| enly to an honest critic. pour out his
venom on the characters Of good men.
Neither Mr.. Story nor Miss Hesmer
| cares anything about such reports: but
| the Younger artists who have not vet
earned regulations which are proof
against insidious ISLANDERS will suffer
greatly on account of such correspond
| ence.
A gratifying tribute is paid 70 an emf
nent American sculptor by this same
writer. as follows:
This correspondent speaks of what
| was seen in Mr.. Simmons studio in
Rome. He says that Mr.. Bracket.
whom We remember in New York Il few
years ago. and who was regarded as a
fair modeller (he made a bust of Mr..
Mason, the organ manufacturer. and an
other of Maggie Mitchell), saw some
body's coat tails, and supposes their
wearrr was helping Mr.. Simmons. But
| we have seen and studied Mr.. Simmons
Roger Williams" in the hail of statues
| of the Capitol; and We are confident that
no Italian can make such n statue. 1t
| is by all odds the best performance in
the way Of portrait statUary III Washing
ton This STATUE of Roger Williams lbs
| too much Of the genuine AngloSaxon
| abont 1t for an Italian ever to appreciate.
1t looks as if Henry Ward Beecher
mi Lit have sat fer it when he was "a
Young man An Italian who conld
make - good an American as this Wi
| Il TINS fi.ufe would have no c.,usr to
hr. himself ont t. model for Others; be
could soon Set up for himself and do
| we'll
We heartily sympatiiSe with this
w.iter when he makes the following bold.
ans. as &c believe true. aveIEnent5 III be-
half of the art of sculpture as repre-
scented in. and abroad. b. natives of, the
United States:
These Italians would have the simple
public believe there are no sculpioTS out
side Ct Italy, whereas the contrary is
ue Since Carova they have not had
t III mn worthy of the uame of scu! tor.
They 1--we Oh the fame Of Angelo, Dol
neteiIo and Cinova; bat they have no
such men nowadays. They axe SOME
what Ike Il sickly diininutive son boast
ing of the powers and virtues Of his
grrist-.randfather-
With an irnpudent assumption of vir
tue the correspondent says 1t Is very
strange that the attention of tire Amerl-
can people has never been called to the
really true state of affairs. Thousands
of Americans go to Rome every year;
and we know that our American scUlp-
tors have done well, from Greenough to
Park-that they have reflected honor on
the American name. Powers, Ciaven-
ger, Crawford Mozler, Reinhart. Rogers
Hart, all have done well; and those liv-
ing are, as those dead have been, honest,
men.
We are tired of this twaddle about TIA
liam sculptors. The Americans have
brain. manhood and genius. Story's
works have not been surpassed. Launt
busts are better than any
italian of modern times can make. And
the marble cutting of Charles Calvefly,