Arnaldo's son Alfo working in the Egregia
studio.
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These sculptures are made following
the workmanship handed down during the time of the able Tuscan
artisans, practised in reproduction of classic sculptures Each
piece is entirely hand-fineshed. Egregia produces
the very finest bonded marble figures available from Italy. |
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe is widely recognized as the greatest writer
of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the
late eighteenth and early nineteengh centuries) is known as the
age of Goethe, and Goethe embodies the concerns of the generation
defined by the legacies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanual Kant,
and the French Revolution. His stature derives not only from
his literary achievments as a lyric poet, novelist, and dramatist
but also from his often significant contributions as a scientist
(geologist, botanist, anatomist, physicist, historian of science)
and as a critic and theorist of literature and of art. He was,
finally, such an imposing personality that for the last thirty
years of his life he was Germany's greatest culturual monument,
serving as an object of pilgrimage from all over Europe and even
from the United State and leaving the small town of Weimar a
major cultural center for decades after his death. Out of this
extraordinary personal presence; out of his overwhelming, almost
threatening, literary stature; and out of the rejection of his
political position in the turbulence of nineteenth-century German
politics, a tradition developed that Goethe's greatness lay in
his wisdom rather than in his literary achievement. Nevertheless,
the continuing fascination with his works, especially with Faust
(1808, 1832; translated, 1823, 1838) confirms his position as
one of the most important writers of the Europen tradition. |
