ABSTRACT
Carving, Modelling and Agostino significant from being represented by the compressed shapes of low relief. Advisedly I say 'can serve5 and 'may become5. For, except Agostino, no sculptor known to me has flattened into low relief almost entire figures in the round. Agostino5s reliefs are the apotheosis of carving. His isolation, and the moderate approval that his work has won, but indicate how undeveloped, generally, is the emotion that the very idea of stone carving should inspire; or, at any rate, how easily it gives ground to emotions aroused by considerations of plasticity.
