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Young Americans: These are lineal descendants of the postillions' horns, which were making exactly the same music on stagecoaches more than a century ago.
Polonius, Self-Appointed, Offers Counsel I hope not to be anywhere near as prolix as the Shakespearean Polonius, but I cannot deny myself the traditional writer's right of propounding a few aphorisms about Americans going to Europe and Americans in Europe.
Gestation takes 16 days; 7-15 in litter; young born pink, naked, and blind. Do not disturb young or mother for at least a week after birth; if disturbed mother will either kill and eat the young or neglect them and allow them to die. After 3 weeks, remove young from mother; otherwise, mother fights with them and often kills them. Sexes should be separated before young reach maturity at 43 days.
Young Americans, trained in Italy, were producing sculpture in a belated neoclassic style shortly before the middle of the 19th century. From that time on, sculpture in America followed the same general path of development as in Europe. Horatio Greenough (1805-1852) was the first academically trained American sculptor. He went to Rome in 1825, studied under Thor-valdsen, then in 1828 settled in Florence where he lived most of his life. |
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