How the Artist's Concept is Transferred to Marble To see cold marble "leaping life" under the chisel, the rugged, Airty-white stone being worn down Ahrough a series of processes until '@t last the shape which is the artist's conception begins to appear, and finally there looks out on one face, smooth and white, polished the real marble, without troubling make a model from which to work, he chisels out the features in rough form, smoothing them and adding wrinkles and expression with finer instruments of precision when the time comes.
Of course this kind of work is not done in this part of the studio, which is more of a show-room than anything else. The chiselling and modelling is done in a small room at the back of the house—a kind of outhouse, where a stone floor takes no damage from flying chips, the dust which must inva can settle on nothing with any harm, If the show-room of the studio is unpretentious, how much more so is this work room. In the
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