"For many historians, the history of American sculpture begins with John Frazee." (Dearinger, 205) He was the first sculptor to be a charter member of the National Academy of Design*, is credited with being a pioneering sculptor of combining Realism* with Neo-Classicism*, and with devising a mechanical
invention that transferred an image from a painting to a marble bust.
Although influenced by Neo-Classical styles of Giuseppe Ceracchi (in
America between 1791 and 1795) and Enr (showing 500 of 3702 characters). |
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