ABSTRACT
Carving, Modelling and Agostino school,1 he could never have developed so facile and flowering a technique, nor attained such naturalism; that some of the Florentine modelling cliches remained with him. But I have already admitted a constant interrelation between what I have called modelling and what I have called carving. I admire the infusion of such modelling into such carving so long as it enhances the layer formation of the stone. Further, I am willing to champion any marble piece, however 'modelled5 its forms, where there still exists some wide reverence for stone, some evidence
Carving, Modelling and Agostino or remembrance of stone culture such as the Mediterranean limestone culture. I give these Florentine plastic stone statues and reliefs preference, as carving, over much northern cutting that may have a minimum of direct plastic aim but which, none the less, pulsates with rhythm. Northerners have never loved stone deep down; and no other material directs the fantasy to pure non-rhythmic space.
