Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
dato: 1904
størrelse: 82 x 119 cm
museum: Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, United States)
Teknik: Sculpture
An apprenticeship with cameo-carvers as a teenager fostered Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s mastery of portrait relief sculpture. Among the first American sculptors to choose study in France rather than Italy, Saint-Gaudens traveled in 1870 to Paris, the center of a revival of bronze sculpture and Renaissance naturalism. He won admission to the École des Beaux-Arts. During a trip to Italy he was deeply impressed by early Renaissance art. Saint-Gaudens’s return to New York in 1872 heralded a turning point in American sculpture: the previous generation of sculptors had lived as expatriates. Saint-Gaudens became the most influential sculptor in America in the Beaux-Arts style. His best-known monumental commissions include memorials to Generals Robert Gould Shaw and William Tecumseh Sherman.
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