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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...gth movie called T each by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim; and free architectural drawings that can be used to build low- cost housing. At th... ...t that painters in other countries sometimes received higher amounts, as did sculptors in our own country. In fact, he told you, all painters in our c...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...rests. To the end of his life he was painting, map-making, carrying out architectural commissions, arranging his treatises on perspective, anatomy... ...ere faltering. His innate shrewdness came to our rescue, and we discussed architectural changes at Amboise... “We must do everything we can to impro... ... I could not have survived in my vineyard at San Vittore: I need artists, sculptors, apprentices, courtiers, women, princes, jousting, masques, jewel... ...allion lower...no red marble here...” I could not equal Donato Bramante’s architectural skill. Friend, I wished him well. Did I spend almost three y...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...t. The clever fellows, the friendly countrymen were mainly young painters, sculptors, architects, medical stu- dents; but they were, Chad sagely opine... ... after they had taken in for a moment, through everything, the great clear architectural street, they turned off in tacit union to the quarter of Stre...

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... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...d sandstone, had pillars, and a carved roof, and other tokens of a regular architectural design. Nev- ertheless, considered as a church, it was exceed... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...other skies. It gleamed over the front of the opposite palace, showing the architectural ornaments of its cornice and pillared portal, as well as the ... ...ear; but vastly the greater number are piled up indistinguishably into the architectural design, like the many deaths that make up the one glory of a ...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ...hy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, reli- gious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that h... ...on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux,—a gallery of architectural specimens and of large hereditary properties. The peasantry h... ...even common decency obliges me to pay some larger tribute than this to the architectural gem of Touraine. Fortunately I can discharge my debt with gra... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ...teness in the work, and a certain robustness of taste. In nothing were the sculptors of the Renaissance more fortunate than in being in advance of us ... ...hand of Paul Dubois, one of the most interesting of that new generation of sculptors who have revived in France an art of which our overdressed centur...

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... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...d sandstone, had pillars, and a carved roof, and other tokens of a regular architectural design. Nev- ertheless, considered as a church, it was exceed... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...other skies. It gleamed over the front of the opposite palace, showing the architectural ornaments of its cornice and pillared portal, as well as the ... ...ear; but vastly the greater number are piled up indistinguishably into the architectural design, like the many deaths that make up the one glory of a ...

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...ceived private proposals, and then present his treasures out of hand to an American city, not unknown to ; aesthetic fame, in which at that time there... ... Roderick Hudson air of apathetic homesickness, and she played her part in American society chiefly by having the little squares of brick pavement in ... ...- tience to get out of it. Is one’s only safety then in flight? This is an American day, an American landscape, an Ameri- can atmosphere. It certainly... ...alian artists of the sixteenth century who were indifferently painters and sculptors, sonneteers and engravers. At times when he saw how the young scu... ... youth,” he said. “But you can’t keep it up—you can’t keep it up!” The two sculptors pursued their discussion after din- ner, in the drawing-room. Row... ... doing a very foolish thing. That ‘s an exploit for spiders, not for young sculptors of promise.” Roderick wiped his forehead, looked back at the wall... ...h me in the act of what you call inconsistency, ask me the meaning of some architectural term. I will know what you mean; a word to the wise!” One mor...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...town, they have a singularly venerable and impressive character. It is the architectural essence of a rich old city, with all its common life and comm... ...th the place itself. It might be a Pantheon, or a Senate House, or a great architectural trophy, having no other ob ject than an architectural triump... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...ere, open to all comers, in their beautiful and calm retreats, the ancient Sculptors are immortal, side by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, R...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...rtless flow of his speech? and its cadenced and undulating rhythm? and its architectural felicities of construction, its graces of expres sion, its p... ...gists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, dema...

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...at might happen to it thencefor- ward. Wielding that wonderful power which sculptors pos- sess over moist clay, however refractory it may show itself ... ...r worth his pencil than the newly painted pine boxes, in which—if he be an American—his countrymen live and thrive. But there is reason to suspect tha... ...of the week, though not so lively as to overcome the gray solemnity of the architectural portion of the scene. In the shadow of the ca- 80 The Marble... ...e as I can spare in studying yonder statue of Pope Julius the Third. Those sculptors of the Middle Age have fitter lessons for the professors of my ar... ...beheld, or fancied, expressed with the quaint, pow- erful simplicity which sculptors sometimes had five hundred years ago, a woman’s tenderness respon... ...the V atican, with my palette and my brushes, and shall look for my little American artist that sees into the very heart of the grand pictures! And wh... ...uch suitable adornments, and were rendered majestically beautiful by grand architectural designs. This antique splendor has long since been stolen fro... ... overstepped the mark, it was sure to be no Roman, but an Englishman or an American; and even the rougher play of this Gothic race was still soft- ene...

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...mmediately dried up. She looked like one of those meagre statues which the sculptors of the Middle Ages carved on monuments. “I cannot curse you,” sai... ...sins of Isis and her sister goddesses sheathed in marble folds by Egyptian sculptors. It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movement. Saved ... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...You expected to find a gentleman, a leader of Art, the chief of all living sculptors.—But that is poetry, you see, a dream requiring fifty thousand fr... ...nd. Grindot, fettered by a contract, had found it impossible to embody his architectural dream. The difference between Josepha’s house and that in the... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...mmercial life lowered the stern and monumental character which paint- ers, sculptors, and clock-makers exaggerate. Of medium height, Pillerault was mo... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...at there were two book-cases in Cesar’s room, which enclosed an alcove,—an architectural surprise to her father. Cesarine flung all her girlish saving... ...with double doors, divided into square panels, in the centre of which were architectural ornaments in cast-iron, painted. This style of door, since be... ... vast hall of the Pas Perdus, and at the other to the Sainte-Chapelle,—two architectural monuments which make all buildings in their neighborhood seem...

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...ed the figures of Flora and Zephyr as we see them grouped by the cleverest sculptors; but they were be- yond sculpture, the greatest of the arts; Luci... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...ht dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are conspicu... ...here a door- 276 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life way without a door or any architectural adornment, a square hole of the meanest type. Through this th...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...hem to be of the completely rounded, the polished slimness that Florentine sculptors in the great time had loved and of which the apparent firmness is ... ... old city, into which a great Palladian church, say—something with a grand architectural front—had suddenly been dropped; so that the rest of the plac... ... I can see them all from here— each of them sticking out by itself—all the architectural cut diamonds that would have scratched one’s softer sides. On... ...the great consolidated cliff, well on to where the city of stucco sat most architecturally perched, with the rumbling beach and the rising tide and th...

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...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ... far thinner 24 Walden than our forefathers did their wheaten. Not that all architectural ornament is to be neglected even in the rudest periods; but... ... country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a be... ...alf truth to the rude oc cupants who really knew it better than he. What of architectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from within ou... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...e purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bo...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...ual bread far thinner than our forefathers did their wheaten. Not that all architectural ornament is to be neglected even in the rudest periods; but l... ...ountry, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beau... ...straining after effect in the style of his dwelling. A great proportion of architectural ornaments are literally hollow, and a September gale would st... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bon...

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...e can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barre... ... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...n what are these millions who read and behold, but incipi- ent writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that qual- ity which now reads and sees, an...