双语+MP3|美国学生艺术史57 丹尼尔·切斯特·佛兰奇

 
谢尔曼雕像是用青铜铸造的，但是雕像上涂了金色的颜料或者是镀了金，所以这座雕像的颜色不同于其他的青铜雕像。如今，这座雕像竖立在纽约市的购物广场。第五大道来回公交车顶部的乘客都能近在咫尺地看见它。它是由美国最棒的雕刻家雕刻而成的哦。 
57 DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH丹尼尔·切斯特·佛兰奇
 
THE Great Sphinx is the biggest stone statue in the world. The Statue of Liberty is the biggest bronze statue in the world. The biggest marble statue in the world is in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The Lincoln Memorial is a beautiful marble building given by the United States in memory of President Lincoln. The statue inside is a huge figure of Abraham Lincoln. It is made up of twenty large pieces of marble so carefully carved and fitted together that the statue seems to be all one piece. 
Now, just because a statue is big doesn’t mean that it is a beautiful statue. A little piece of sculpture as big as your hand may be much more beautiful than a huge statue as big as a house. But this biggest marble statue is beautiful. It is great in other ways than just bigness. 
The Lincoln statue is the only one in the building. Do you remember another great shrine with a single statue inside? See Chapter 37. The inner walls of the Memorial are decorated with huge paintings, but the whole building seems made just to hold this one statue. Lincoln is seated in a peculiar kind of chair that looks like a throne. He sits facing the door so that you stand before him when you enter. 
The whole memorial is so beautiful and impressive, so simple and so fitting, that you feel as if the spirit of Lincoln himself were in the building. I don’t believe a single boy who knows anything of Lincoln’s story could keep his hat on inside the Lincoln Memorial, no matter how careless he might usually be about such things. See picture No.85-2 in Chapter 85. 
The sculptor of this wonderful statue of Abraham Lincoln was Daniel Chester French. Let me tell you about two of his many other statues. 
Daniel Chester French carved the Minute Man that stands on the battle-field at Concord, Massachusetts. Where the statue stands, the road crosses a little wooden bridge over a stream and it was at this crossing that the New England farmers fired on the British soldiers— fired “the shot heard round the world.” The Minute Man was placed there in memory of those farmer soldiers. They were called minute men because they kept themselves ready to go to fight the enemy at a minute’s notice. The statue shows a minute man who is plowing when the call to arms comes. He leaves the plow in the field as he snatches his musket. It was French’s first statue, made when he was twenty-three. 
 
No.57-1　ABRAHAM LINCOLN（《阿伯拉罕·林肯》）　　　　FRENCH（佛兰奇　制） 
Photograph by Publishers Photo Service 
 
No.57-2　DEATH STAYING THE HAND OF THE SCULPTOR（《死神阻止雕刻家干活》） 
FRENCH（佛兰奇　制） 
Courtesy of The University Prints. 
Some years later Daniel Chester French made a statue called “Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor.” The statue shows the Angel of Death reaching out her hand to take the hand of a young sculptor who is carving a sphinx in bas relief. Of course when Death takes his hand the sculptor must leave his work unfinished. The statue is in memory of a young sculptor named Millmore, who died almost at the beginning of his work. It is sometimes called the Millmore Memorial.