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Erastus Dow Palmer Erastus Dow Palmer
Erastus Dow Palmer 1817-1904, American sculptor, b. Pompey, N.Y., self-taught. A carpenter in his youth, he spent his leisure time cutting cameos. He progressed to carving bas-reliefs and then figures in the round, sculpted to conform with the classical ideal. His first full-length figure, The... Read more
Robert Gould Shaw Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw 1837-63, Union hero in the American Civil War, b. Boston. An ardent white abolitionist, he was colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first body of black troops raised in a free state. He was killed leading the regiment in the attack on Fort Wagner, Charleston, S.C. A... Read more
gesso gesso
gesso. Brilliant white preparation of powdered chalk mixed with glue, used during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as a ground to prepare a panel or canvas for painting or gilding. The gesso was applied in several layers, with the proportion of chalk to glue progressively increasing. When... Read more
Doulton ware Doulton ware
Doulton ware , English pottery produced at Lambeth after 1815, first by John Doulton and his partners, then by his descendants. It won the medal at the Exhibition of 1851 and more than 200 subsequent awards for the perfection of the various products and the beauty of their decoration by skilled... Read more
Jean Dubuffet Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet , 1901-85, French painter and sculptor. Dubuffet began his artistic career in 1942. He created primitive, childlike, and humorous effects savagely opposed to established taste. For many works he prepared a thick impasto of materials such as asphalt, pebbles, and glass to enrich the... Read more
clunch clunch
clunch. A generic name for harder types of chalk or soft limestones, varying in colour from white to greenish-grey. Clunch has occasionally been used as a building stone, but is more suitable for interior carved work and sculpture, for which purposes it was much used in England in the late Middle... Read more
Samuel McIntire Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire , 1757-1811, American architect and woodcarver, b. Salem, Mass. He developed high skill as a joiner and housewright and in wood sculpture. McIntire's opportunities, both as builder and carver, came in designing houses for the shipowning aristocracy of Salem. In the interiors of these... Read more
chryselephantine chryselephantine
chryselephantine , Greek sculptural technique developed in the 6th cent. BC Sculptures, especially temple colossi, were made with an inner core of wood overlaid with ivory, to simulate flesh, and gold, to represent drapery. The great Parthenon Athena, now lost, was chryselephantine.... Read more
Alexander Colins Alexander Colins
Alexander Colins , c.1527-1612, Flemish sculptor. He brought European court mannerism to Germany, where he directed the sculpture on the Ottheinrichsbau (1562) in Heidelberg. He designed the sculpture for the tomb of Ferdinand II and executed most of the reliefs in marble on the tomb of Maximilian... Read more
the New Sculpture the New Sculpture
New Sculpture, the. A trend in British sculpture between about 1880 and 1910 characterized chiefly by an emphasis on naturalistic surface detail and a taste for the spiritual or Symbolist in subject matter, in reaction against the blandness of much Victorian sculpture. The name was coined by the... Read more

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