The statue of a soldier looks very determined in a chunky 1880s way. When granite replaced marble as the material of choice for monument sculptors, it seems as though it took them a while to learn how to convey any subtlety in the harder stone.
The statue of a soldier looks very determined in a chunky 1880s way. When granite replaced marble as the material of choice for monument sculptors, it seems as though it took them a while to learn how to convey any subtlety in the harder stone.
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[…] Chartiers Cemetery has a grand Civil War monument, and at the base of it the graves of dozens of Civil War soldiers are neatly […]