Telegram-herald., 1889-12-09

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yoafe arssaFs - have tesn ons II poverty.
All cfasa ~ misery
Auso,ll.kis Erst sork produced Ia ls64.
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Lsan JeE tailor u cap and cattan. slf-lug
cross lagzel ID tee Nlncoa ~ hs l..-= saop.
an trying Co tlFead bls nse1-s 4Eal-st rls
E.Lt, Els eges. LIS. All al .Le fals- - -t rs
Isee 4lsgEle1 b tae business. Eor Ills plses
of Realism hs obtained a second class SILVER
melal and followed ir up ia ISIS - q seooud
slgort svo n weed AID ivory of q ooUnuy
ullser counting as uoney shlrn obtained
hTst class msdaL Then followed q psrlod ~
misery and apparently hopeless s-rlgs Ing.
d-rlug elleh ADtoco.ssl cCue-lves. AMI eE-
ecC-ed lls grand statue oi Ivan tl4 Terrible
lyan, the heroic Incarnation of tAe mlgnr
and baroAriJy of Oh hlssiz., is represented
b. An1ocolski m tns later years of his Af8
cl4i Ia a mona garo, with Ehs Bible o1 bis
knee. ana a. his side rbe legendary steel
pointed Stzf with which he tested the man
hoo.i Il his mobiles, beat cut rae brains ~ his
enemies and klllsi hls son Ivan Is absorbed
n thought, meditstlng between despair and
the hope u grace, between the conso- alton Of
the Scriptures and the memory Of his innu-
merabls crimes. When AntocOlsd conserved
his Ivan be was starving on s. a month- lie
was too poor 70 hire 4 studio, and il was only
with great difficulty that be obtained permls-
sion % work during the vacations IN one Of
the class rooms of the academy, whence he
vas hnauy banizhed 10 a lumber room under
the root
At last, when he had finished his statue, tho
professors Of tho academy refused 10 climb
upstairs 10 sc it. and in despair Antocolsd
summoned up courage 10 cal upon Prince
Gargarin, president Of the academy, who
came and saw the statue, and returned tbs
following dav with the Grand Duchess Maria
Pavlovna, uSb in her turn brought the empe-
ror himself. The imperial visit put an end
% Antocolski's sufferings. All St Peters
burg trooped up the stairs which the tsar had
not disdained TO tread. Antocolski was made
an academician and sent 70 Rome with a pen
sion, while his statue was bought for the Her
mitage museum, where il now stands exc
cuted IN marble.
In lS72 Antocolski produced a colossal
statue of Peter the Great marching against
his enemies; in 1874, Christ before the people
tied TO post; in 1870 monument OF the
Princess Oboienska, now in the church yard
os Monte Testario at Rome; in 1876, the death
OF Socrates. now in the Hermitage; and then
successiyely among his chief works may be
noted bass relief, the last sight Of Christ on
the cross uS70; the head Of John the Bap-
tist, bronze and marble ISIS; the statue of
Spinoza dSS2 Mephistopheles, in some re-
spects the finest of MS works. now in the
Hermitage; the high relief of Jaroslav the
Wise, the author of the first Russian codex,
equestrian statues OF Jarosav the Wise and
Of Ivan III; a seated statue OF Christ,
Come unto me all We that are heavy laden -
a monument 10 the memory of the late EN-
peror Alexander; Christian martyr, Ophe-
liza and quantities Of minor works and busts
AntOcolski's work in all its varied NANTES
tatiOns has certain common characteristics,
which are those Of the sculptor and of the
generation to which he belongs. His work is
above all things literary, it is full of sorrow
fulness and reproach, he is by preference the
sculptor of martyrs, or il not Of martyrs, of
heroes.
AntOcolski is not partisan of the theory
Of art for arts sake; be is rather preacher
who endeavors 10 embody moral ideas in
marble, 10 set forth the conflict Of the soul,
as in his Ivan the Terrible; the sublimity Of
resignation, as in his Christian martyr; the
majesty OF Divine commiseration, as in his
Christ.-Theodore Child in Harper's Maga-
zine.