Capitolo 51
President of the Real academy and others of as magnitude. The Mr. Watson
Taylor, a rich patron of art gave the job of Gibson, and you/he/she was anxious
what he should stop in London. But Gibson wanted more than the job;
he wanted to _learn_, to improve himself/herself/themselves, to become great in his
art. He could do what in any place but to Rome, and to Rome he was therefore
determined to go. The Mr. Taylor anchors it implored him to wait for a small. "Goes to
Rome that I want", Gibson audaciously responded, "even if I have to follow there
foot."
He was not reduced completely to this heroic measure, however for his
The friends of Liverpool constituted a purse of L150 for him (we can be sure it was
refunded later); and with that great sum comparatively in pocket
the young stone-cutter gaily started street on his/her continental turn, from
what he was not to return for twenty-seven years. He drove from Paris
to Rome, dividing a carriage with a Scottish gentleman; and when he arrived
in the city of the Pope (as it was then) he didn't absolutely know an only word
of Italian, or of some other language on rescue of Welsh earth and the English. In
those days, Canova, the great Venetian sculptor was the head of
artistic society to Rome; and as society of _all_ in more Rome is or
less artistic, it would almost be said that he has conducted the whole life of, the
great and vivacious city. Indeed, the position of such man in Italy
it resembles to far more that of a duke in England that of an artist as us
here it got used to think about him. Gibson had letters of introduction
to this prince of sculptors from his/her London friends; and when he went
introduce them, he found Canova in his/her study, it surrounded from his numerous
researchers and admirers. The stone-cutter of Liverpool had brought some of
his/her sketches with him, and Canova examined them with the great attention.
Instinctively he recognized the touch of genius. When he had looked to
them acutely for some minutes, he turned him kind to the young trembling
crews, and it immediately said, "it Comes alone the next week to me, for me I want to have a