No one can wonder at the universal homage accorded by his countrymen to the memory of the greatest of modern sculptors.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Writers and painters set an example in this way; painters and sculptors especially, for they study the art of all times and peoples, ancient Greek, Egyptian, Japanese, etc.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
This means, not that his standard is realistic: but that it is entirely human; it could scarcely be otherwise in a mind so devoted to the study of human life; but these very poems display also, on Mr. Browning's part, a loving familiarity with the works of painters, sculptors, and musicians, and a practical understanding of them, which might easily have resulted in a partial acceptance of artistic standards as such, and of the policy of art for art; and it is only through the breadth and strength of his dramatic genius, that artistic sympathies in themselves so strong could be subjected to it.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr