The Art Life of William Rimmer
ISBN: 978-02-598-1608-9
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 280
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2018 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
Excerpt from The Art Life of William Rimmer: Sculptor, Painter, and Physician<br><br>York as the director of the School of Design for Women at the Cooper Institute.<br><br>Of his origin nothing whatever was learned, either by his friends or the public; and outside of his family - circle little was known of his life or his strug gles, even by his immediate friends.<br><br>His plaster statue of the falling gladiator,' when in 1861 it was first shown at his house in East Milton, and soon after in Boston, was pronounced a remarkable work, and its author a modern Michael Angelo. But neither this work, nor the st. Stephen, which was produced a year earlier, gained at that time the place in public esteem which they merited; and, after a temporary suc cess, both sank into undeserved obscurity.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.