Among more recent books I would mention Herr Bode's "Florentine Sculptors of the Renaissance," Mr. F.M. Hyett's "Florence," Mr. E.L.S. Horsburgh's "Lorenzo the Magnificent" and "Savonarola," Mr. Gerald S. Davies' "Michelangelo," Mr. W.G. Waters' "Italian Sculptors," and Col. Young's "The Medici".

"Did you find that young sculptor?"

Luca gave a specimen of his renowned courtesy by comforting the sculptor in these rather sanctimonious phrases: "Doubt not that angels will come from heaven, to support your arms and help you.

These represent twenty scenes in the life of S. John the Baptist, and below them are eight figures of cardinal and Christian virtues, and they employed their sculptor from 1330 to 1336.

Why should not we encourage individual young sculptors more?

the "Bailie" sighed, "that I should see this day!" Next rode in melancholy guise, with sombre vest and scarf, Sir Edward, Laird of Ellieslaw, the far-renowned "Black Dwarf;" Upon his left, in bonnet blue, and white locks flowing free The pious sculptor of the gravestood "Old Mortality!" "Balfour of Burley," of "Claverhouse," the "Lord of Evandale," And stately "Lady Margaret," whose woe might naught avail!

Do you mean that he is trying to save the credit of Moses, by maintaining that the Spirit of God which guides a sculptor is not the same in kind as that which guides a saint? No (replied Fellowes, with surprise), he is not defending Moses; he is attacking Parker.

The prelate who had introduced the sculptor now began to make excuses for him, whereupon Julius turned in a fury upon the officious courtier, and had him beaten from his presence.

When the Signory, in concert with the Arte de' Mercanti, decided to complete the bronze gates of the Baptistery in the first year of the fifteenth century, they issued a manifesto inviting the sculptors of Italy to prepare designs for competition.

The inconvenience of this method, which left the sculptor to wreak his fury on the marble with mallet and chisel, can be readily conceived.

It was given to me by my friend, the grave majorhim of whom I would like some famous sculptor to make a statue as he sat at his work of observation.

Some people regret that he has "buried" himself in Bruges, and that England has practically lost her best sculptor.

Susannah married an English sculptor, named Whorstly, and lived many years in great honor and esteem with all the court.

Julius ordered the sculptor to prepare his mausoleum.

What the Visconti and the Borgias practised in their secret chambers, the sculptors exposed in marble and the poets in verse.

" We have no contemporary account of Michelangelo in early manhood; but the tenor of his life was so even, and, unlike Cellini, he moved so constantly upon the same lines and within the same sphere of patient self-reserve, that it is not difficult to reconstruct the young and vigorous sculptor out of this detailed description by his loving friend and servant in old age.

He reminds the sculptor of a promise once made to him in Florence of a design for an engraved gem.

Signorelli's transcripts from the nude, remarkably similar to those of Michelangelo, reveal a sculptor rather than a painter.

It was his best and happiest period, but nothing came of it beyond the letters and the reams of verse he sent to Leyland the sculptor.

Of this sitting the sculptor afterwards gave some account to his compatriot, Hans Andersen: "Byron placed himself opposite to me, but at once began to put on a quite different expression from that usual to him. '

Vasari writes of it as follows: "He also began a statue in marble of S. Matteo, which, though it is but roughly hewn, shows perfection of design, and teaches sculptors how to extract figures from the stone without exposing them to injury, always gaining ground by removing the superfluous material, and being able to withdraw or change in case of need."

Mediaeval religion withdrew Italian sculptors and painters from the problems of purely physical form, and obliged them to study the expression of sentiments and aspirations which could only be rendered by emphasising psychical qualities revealed through physiognomy.

Writing on the 9th of October 1520, he addresses the then famous sculptor as "honoured kinsman," and gives the following piece of information: "Turning over my old papers, I have discovered that a Messere Simone da Canossa was Podestà of Florence, as I have already mentioned to the above-named Giovanni da Reggio.

Of the product of other Pre-Raphaelites of note,such as Ford Madox Brown, Millais, Morris, Woolner the sculptor, Coventry Patmore, and Holman Hunt,much that is commendable as well as finely imaginative came from their hands, and justified Ruskin in his gallant advocacy of the movement, its founders, and their work.

To ape the sculptors of Antinous, or to bring to life again the gods who died with Pan, was not yet longed for.