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Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy (Classic Reprint)

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Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
America
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Intended Audience
Adults
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No
Inscribed
No
Ex Libris
No
Personalized
No
Signed
No
Number of Pages
163
Type
textbook
ISBN
9780282590086
Publication Year
2017
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy : Exhibited by the American Numismatic Society at the Albright Art Gallery, March 27 to April 27; with Introduction by Christian Brinton (Classic Reprint)
Item Height
0.3in
Author
American Numismatic Society
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Genre
Art, History
Topic
Techniques / Painting, General
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz

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Excerpt from Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy: Exhibited by the American Numismatic Society at the Albright Art Gallery, March 27 to April 27; With Introduction by Christian BrintonIst who was engaged in painting likenesses of hisparents. F - Thoxugh he-was fond of drawing, and had also amused himself by cleverly tinting the counte nances of' a set of marionettes with which he and his brothers used to play, it was, however, sculpture that attracted him most. He began modeling in soft bread, and later in wax, his subjects being the heads of dogs and other domestic pets so plentiful around the house. Desiring to widen the scope of his activ ity, he next chose as model a tattered mendicant who used to loiter about the villa gates, and whom he bribed to pose by offering him his own dessert of fruit or sweets, an act of epicurean abnegation sufficiently rare in a child not yet in the teens. Although strong, healthy, and devoted to exercise in the Open air, par ticularly tramping or riding among the mountains and along the lake front, he was uncommonly ab sorbed in his chosen task, and tried his hand by turn at every sort of theme. Having completed an excep tionally faithfulxand lifelike head of a horse, his mother, who had thus far regarded the boy's efforts mainly in the light of juvenile d1vers10n, became so impressed by his ability that she was moved to take the work to Milan, where she submitted'it to the inspection of the sculptor Grandi. With the ready discernment of a practised executant, Grandi at once pronounced the bit of wax'a production of youthful.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Forgotten Books
ISBN-10
0282590080
ISBN-13
9780282590086
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy : Exhibited by the American Numismatic Society at the Albright Art Gallery, March 27 to April 27; with Introduction by Christian Brinton (Classic Reprint)
Author
American Numismatic Society
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Techniques / Painting, General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Art, History

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz

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