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Lawyers Of Paris Adopted: In the 17th century, the lawyers of Paris adopted the device for satirizing current events without incurring legal action. This form was known as de rebus quae geruntur (concerning what is going on).Rebuses as pictorial signatures were popular in England in the Middle Ages and were often used as decorative motifs—a Lock and a heart for the name Lockhart, an eye and a tun (cask) for Eyton. Rebuses may also be formed by a special arrangement of words, such as undertaking.
He was one of the lawyers retained by the government for the prosecution of John H. Surratt for the murder of President Lincoln. He served as law officer of the District of Columbia from 1877; and for several years after its establishment he was in charge of the law department at Howard University. Author of 'Students and Lawyers' (1873); 'Alice Brand: A Tale of the CapitaP (1875) ; (Life of James A. Garfield' (1880) ; (The Sugar Maple of the West Woods' (1885); 'Life of Benjamin Wade' (1886); 'Recollections of War Times, 1860-65.'
Paul Dubois (1829-1905), after a sojourn in Florence, adopted features of Early Renaissance sculpture. The delicacy and spirituality of that period appears in his bronze Young St. John the Baptist (Luxembourg Museum, Paris). Jules Dalpu (1838-1902), who in his full forms and salubrious carnality reminds one of his contemporary, the painter Renoir, revoked the spirit of Rubens in great bronze groups of Silenus (Luxembourg Gardens, Paris), and the Republic (Place de la Nation, Paris). The German, Reinhold Begas (1831-1911), also drew inspiration from the rich fancy of baroque art in his fountain near the Royal Palace in Berlin. His work lacks the vitality of Dalou. |
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