The Dome, 1897, Vol. 2: A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This exhibition - in which, among other remarkable works, the Pal/as by Mr. Dillens, and the Medusa by Mr. Vincotte, reproduced in this article, were exhibited - gave yet another proof of the extraordinary manual dexterity of the Belgian sculptors; in a few months they had penetrated all the secrets of ivory cutting, and, in an art quite new to them, showed a craftsman shipy quite equal to that which won such fame for the ivory-carvers of the Middle Ages. Unequal as regards talent, - which is explainable by the fact that the blocks of ivory were distributed to all sculptors, without distinc tion, who asked for them, - but all perfect in execution, these works obtained a great success; and with this success the entirely modern prejudice, which considered ivory sculpture to be an inferior branch of the art, dis appeared among artists, as well as among the public. Ivory, which had hardly been used since the time of Francois Duquesnoy, of Bossuyt, and of Luc Fayd'herbe, once more became the fashion; and this vogue was further increased in the following year by an exhibition of ivory sculpture at the Cercle Artistique in Brussels. The sculptors had only to follow the movement which they themselves had helped to create and, for works of small dimensions, the use of ivory seemed henceforth as natural as that of marble, bronze, or any other precious material.

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