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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...e being a woman and fantasized about gender reassignment. He was not shy about his collections and even showed them to visitors. For many years, Ed... ...es boasts a few statue-related records. The Statue of Liberty is the largest copper sculpture in the world. Mount Rushmore - in the Black Hills near... ...it with him wherever he went. Leonardo's terra cota model for a colossal bronze sculpture of the father of his benefactor and employer, Ludovico...

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Margele Risipite

By: Florentin Smarandache

...agonal: “poem- phenomenon”, “poem-(soul)status”, “poem-thing”. In painting, sculpture similarly – all existed in nature, already fabricated. Therefor... ...n en diagonale: poème-phénomène poème-âme, poème- chose. Dans la peinture, sculpture semblablement – tous existaient en nature, déjà fabriqués. Don... ... diagonal: phenomenon poem, (soul) status poem, thing poem. In painting, sculpture similarly – all existed in nature, already fabricated. Therefor... ...t! Previziunea mea s-a adeverit cumva, în ceea ce se cheam ă ast ăzi Junk Sculpture (sculptur ă din gunoaie, mai mult asamblare din de şeuri). Ei, ... ... banal! Prozatoarea Delia Oprea a vizitat o expozi ţie, “Les champs de la sculpture”, la doi pa şi de Champs-Elysées, în Paris, unde o sculptori ţă...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...ts. Figure 1.4.3 shows the FCM for OP#1. Office Plant #1 is a desktop sculpture, an office machine that serves as a companion. In an environment... ... In an environment of button pushing activity, OP#1, like a good piece of sculpture, is always on. OP#1 creates its own kind of variable presence in... ... simply FIGURE: 1.4.3 67 there and in that sense a tradition piece of sculpture. Its physicality is as important as its text classifying capabil...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...gyptians are not only to be seen in pyramid, obelisk, sphinx and colossus, for sculpture and hieroglyphic reveal the nation in marvellous advancement.... ...ity, so much remained for the French invaders that the estimates of the French collections make the amount to have been about forty million livres (ab...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...nny steamer to the Tower; they looked at pictures both in public and private collections and sat on various occasions beneath the great trees in Kensi... ...It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as ... ...the land of consideration. His tastes, his studies, his accomplishments, his collections, were all for a purpose. His life on his hilltop at Florence ... ...Goodwood smoked a cigar with him afterwards and even desired to be shown his collections. Gilbert said to Isabel that he was very original; he was as ...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...th other refuse of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odiou... ...hat sort of faultless beauty which probably does really exist in the Greek sculpture. There are few things perfect in this world of frailty. Even ligh... ...ich (poor things!) cannot improve by experi- ence. As to man who does, the sculpture of the Greeks in their marbles and sometimes in their gems, seems... ...is is a ten- dency naturally favored and strengthened in them, by the fine collections of books, carried forward through successive generations, which... ... best conveyed by saying that the Grecian is a breathing from the world of sculpture, the English a breathing from the world of painting. What we read... ...pture, the English a breathing from the world of painting. What we read in sculpture is not absolutely death, but still less is it the fulness of life... ...a life that is thrown to an infinite distance. This last is the feature of sculpture which seems most characteristic: the form which presides in the m...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ll daily be- hold; namely, the inconceivable mystery of having written and sculptured upon the tablets of man’s heart a new code of moral distinctions... ...f another principle—the conservative feeling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not ch... ...ellished, recommended to the affections of men, and hallowed by the votive sculptures, as I may say, of that affec- tion, gathering in amount from age... ...conse- quently, as each was sealed with a private seal of the Landgrave’s, sculptured elaborately with his armorial bear- ings, forgery would have bee... ...e saintly memorials about them, the records of everlasting peace which lay sculptured at their feet, and the strains which still ascended to heaven fr...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...or I have never seen any thing like it, except in some small pieces in the collections of amateurs.”— “I am glad,” he answered, “that you like such wo... ...rom my own impulse, purchased many things that are still to be found in my collections. At an earlier date than this,—so early that I scarcely set eye... ... pun upon the name of Ochsenstein.—Trans. 89 Goethe cabinets of pictures, collections of engravings; while the curi- osities of our own country espec... ...n and his vast expenses, then of his successor’s love of art and of making collections; of Count Brühl and his boundless love of mag- nificence, which... ...adjoining private cabinet, which contained at the same time his few books, collections of art and natural curiosities, and whatever else might have mo... ...ufficiently. “For,” he said, “although single statues and larger groups of sculpture remain the foundation and the summit of all knowledge of art, yet... ... passion upon the otherwise so splendid sixteenth century, when, in German sculptures and poems, they knew how to represent life only under the form o...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...g of excellent whetstones.” I confess that I have but little love for such collections as they have at the Catacombs, Pere la Chaise, Mount Auburn, an... ...ill not vouch for the truth of this story. In the New Hampshire Historical Collections for 1815 it says, “Some time after pewter was found in the well... .... The buffoon cannot bribe you to laugh always at his grimaces; they shall sculpture them selves in Egyptian granite, to stand heavy as the pyramids ... ... an intoxicating draught, but an electuary. It has the distinct outline of sculpture, and chronicles an early hour. Under the influence of passion all... ...se old books the stucco has long since crumbled away, and we read what was sculptured in the granite. They are rude and massive in their proportions, ... ...sphere, a symbol for the ages to study, whether impressed upon the sky, or sculptured amid the hieroglyphics of Egypt. Bound to some northern meadow, ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...sed the fathers of poetic rage; 50 The verse and sculpture bore an equal part, And Art reflected images to Art. Oh! when sha... ...t high with sparkling wine, Which Danaus used in sacred rites of old, With sculpture graced, and rough with rising gold: Here to the clouds victorious... ...od, Fair to be seen, and rear’d of honest wood: A tomb, indeed, with fewer sculptures graced Than that Mausolus’ pious widow placed, Or where enshrine... ...e exactly fill’d, Or which fond authors were so good to gild, Or where, by sculpture made for ever known, The page admires new beauties not its own. H... ...translations of Homer and Virgil done to the life, and with such excellent sculptures. And (what added great grace to his works) he printed them all o... ...the stage gave o’er:’ A. Boyer, a voluminous compiler of annals, political collections, &c.— William Law, A.M., wrote with great zeal against the stag...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...entiment, of course, may develop itself in vari- ous modes—in Painting, in Sculpture, in Architecture, in the Dance—very especially in Music—and very ... ...as blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door— Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as “Neve... ...e following twenty-nine lines, which have been omitted in - all subsequent collections: AL AARAAF Mysterious star! Thou wert my dream All a long summe...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

... Painting be more niggardly in displaying her masterpieces than her sister Sculpture? And yet, my friend, we must part suddenly; the carpenter is comi... ...e, which those of the nobility and gentry who might wish to complete their collections of modern art were invited to visit without delay. So ended Dic... ...m the recess of the earth in open day, and winded its way among the broken sculpture and moss-grown stones which lay in confusion around its source. T...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...ered into a snuggery where the chief furniture would probably be books and collections of natural objects. The Vicar himself seemed to wear rather a c... ...face around the simply braided dark brown hair. She was not looking at the sculpture, probably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamily o... ...her that Naumann had first seen her, and he had entered the long gallery of sculpture at the same time with her; but here Naumann had to await Ladislaw... ...eems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and so... ...he was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and ... ...conversation, she never looked towards him any more than if she had been a sculptured Psyche modelled to look another way: and when, after being calle...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...face around the simply braided dark-brown hair. She was not looking at the sculpture, prob- ably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamil... ...er that Naumann had first seen her, and he had entered the long gallery of sculpture at the same time with her; but here Naumann had to await Ladislaw... ...eems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and so... ...he was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and ... ...conversation, she never looked towards him any more than if she had been a sculptured Psyche mod- elled to look another way: and when, after being cal...

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