Part 40 (1/2)

What country was the hly celebrated for its sculpture?

Greece, which produced many celebrated sculptors, of whoreat master of this art, who lived in the time of Pericles, 408 years before Christ; Lysippus, a native of Sicyon, near Corinth; and Praxiteles, a native of Magna Grecia

What event proved fatal to this art?

The death of Alexander the Great was followed by a visible decline in all the fine arts; but the fatal blow to their existence was given by the success of the conquering Romans, who reduced Greece to a Roman province

Was Sculpture always perforures were formed of wood or baked clay, afterwards of stone, ht to any degree of perfection, till about three hundred years before Christ The Greeks were fareatstatues in it was Phidias

What progress did the Ro their early history, existed rather as a plant of foreign growth, partially cultivated by them, than as a native production of their own land They collected, indeed, some of the most exquisite samples of Grecian sculpture, and invited to their capital the yet re sculptors of Greece, by whose labors not only Rome itself was embellished, but also many of the cities of Asia Minor, Spain, and Gaul, then under the Roman dominion; yet the taste for sculpture does not appear to have been cultivated in any es thus afforded them in the study of the best models of the art The best works were produced by Greek artists, and chiefly Athenian, while the attempts of the Romans were unskilfully executed

_Gaul_, the ancient name of France

_Model_, pattern

Did it always continue thus?

No; from the time of the Emperor Constantine, sculpture, and the rest of the fine arts, gradually revived While inspired, perhaps, with a taste for sculpture by means of the scattered remains of Grecian art, the Roman artists drew, at the same time, from their own resources, and were by no e The first academy of the art was founded at Florence, in 1350, and at the close of the same century, sculpture was firmly established in Italy, and itinerant sculptors, not unskilful in their art, wandered froland The elo, born in 1474, as also a painter and architect; from his tiradually declined, but under Canova, a native of Possagno, in the Venetian Alps, it revived He was born in 1757 Besides the above rees of talent, as well as so

_Servile_, slavish,

When was the knowledge of Sculpture introduced into England?

At the time of its conquest by the Romans; but the art appears to have been very rude and imperfect From the time of the Norman invasion, and still further in the tian to show itself in British sculpture But it is probable that most of their best architectural and sculptural works were executed by foreigners,sculptors before mentioned Under Edward the Third, the art appears to have been lishmen It is well known that two Italian sculptors were e the sixteenth century John of Padua, a pupil of Michael Angelo, was n of Charles the First, English sculptors flourished, although their works are of a very low order

_Invasion_, hostile entrance upon the rights or possessions of another

_Architectural_, belong to Architecture

_Sculptural_, belonging to Sculpture

[Illustration: GATHERING TURPENTINE BY ScrapING]

[Illustration: DISTILLING TURPENTINE]

With whom may the School of British Sculptors be considered as co?