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Title: Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: De Kay, Charles, 1848-1935
Subjects: Barye, Antoine-Louis, 1796-1875
Publisher: New York : The Barye Monument Association
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ggest science to those who were influencedby his creations, he helped men to a wider and fairer view of animatedbeings on earth, seizing this one on the side of simple curiosity, thatone through his faculty of perceiving a beauty in unusual things notcommonly treated in the arts, and a third by the mere technical ex-cellence of his touch as a modeler and bronze founder. But a statue or group admired when of large size and in the openair may not please so much if it be a statuette that holds its place on themantel-board or the writing-desk. In the home the subjects that seemmost appropriate are gentle figures in oils, water-colors, marble, ivoryor bronze which do not suggest thoughts of bloodshed and cruelty.Children might perhaps learn to be cruel, many a parent has thought,if they saw constantly before their eyes combats and carnage, even ifonly between wild beasts. The sports of the arena in Rome, the bull-fights of Spain, the bear-baitings of our immediate ancestors of northern 122
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HIS WOEKS DISTASTEFUL TO WOMEN Europe are supposed to have been a harm to public morals by accustom-ing the people from infancy to the idea of bloodshed. Now the illustrations in this book are enough to show what a proces-sion of frightful shapes passed beneath the quiet strong hands of AntoineLouis Barye during that half-century so recently elapsed ! Many a manwho knew well how beautiful his bronzes were must have hesitatedbefore bringing them into his home, fearing lest his children mightacquire some uncanny taste for blood by seeing these tigers devouringthe innocent croppers of the grass, elephants transfixing tigers with theirtusks, pythons crunching life and shape out of crocodiles, or jaguars gloat-ing over their newly-slain prey. Nay, he may have feared that the childunborn might suffer irretrievable harm through the eyes of its motherif there should be any substratum of fact in the fancies on that headwhich the ancients believed in all their fullness and the moderns them-selv

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