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Romanesque.—Romanesque sculpture exhibits the renewed vitality of Western culture in the llth and 12th centuries. A factor, highly favorable to its development sculpture, was that sculpture at this time was eminently useful. Nearly all Romanesque sculpture was for the embellishment of churches and sacred objects. It follows that most of it is in relief, be it in the stone of which the churches were built, or be it in the gold or bronze or wood of the object it adorned and gave meaning to.

These significant pti poses have generally been served by sculpture ( considerable size, and there is no doubt that largi ness promotes an effect of impressiveness i sculpture as it does in architecture. This i borne out by the observation that most sculptur which has been made merely to embellish or t delight is definitely under life-size or even of th statuette category. A notable exception to thi rule is found in fountain sculpture from the 16t! century on, where the architectural or arborea setting often requires commensurate scale in tb sculpture.

Young Americans, trained in Italy, were producing sculpture in a belated neoclassic style shortly before the middle of the 19th century. From that time on, sculpture in America followed the same general path of development sculpture as in Europe. Horatio Greenough (1805-1852) was the first academically trained American sculptor. He went to Rome in 1825, studied under Thor-valdsen, then in 1828 settled in Florence where he lived most of his life.