2. The opportunities of anatomical studies are here nearly perfect,
and free from all expense. The medical schools not only illustrate
anatomy by surgery on the cadaver, but standing by the side of the
dead body is a living one, in which the action of the muscles
dissected before the student may be studied in life. These colleges
are open to all artists, and furnish the best possible schooling in
anatomy, a thorough acquaintance with which is indispensable to the
sculptor, and can only be obtained in America at great cost.
3. Marble is no cheaper here than in New York, the long
sea-carriage costing no more to America than the short
land-carriage does from the quarries to Florence or Rome. But good
workmen, who can not be dispensed with, are so abundant and so
cheap here, so rare and so dear at home, that that alone is a
decisive reason for coming abroad. Even here it is a heavy expense
to procure sufficient and competent workmen; at home it is almost
at ruinous cost and with nearly insuperable difficulty. I have two
workmen--as good, certainly, as the best in America--to the finest
of whom I pay only four dollars a day.
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