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marble, which is frequently stained + cracked, in all their academics are accustomed + recommended to draw from the clean plaster casts.

Here it may not be inopportune to correct an error concerning originality in sculpture which is now a different art form [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] what it was in the time of Michaelangelo. The sculptor then having made a little model in wax, studied + finished at leisure, selected his oncable [[best guess]] of suitable dimensions + proceded to chisel with infinite labor the figure which his imagination had conceived. With a rude mask, Michaelangelo, a man of athletic frame, is described as wielding his mallet + chisel w/ such skillfully directed vigor that it was dangerous, amid the flying [[strikethrough]] marblelike-chips of [[/strikethrough]] chips of marble to approach him. The sculptor (so called) of the present day has no such labor to perform, runs no similar risk of failure, need know [[strikethrough]] no [[/strikethrough]] anything of cutting marble, though it is doubtless better that he should. But having modeled his figure in ductile clay, he employs a mo[[?]] to cats it in plaster to be finally retouched. It is the practice in Rome + Florence to pack up this plaster cast + send it to the quarries [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] of Carrara where careful workmen, well instructed from their infancy in drawing, anatomy + the use of the chisel + various mechanical aids, produce a careful copy in marble. Sometimes