sculptor

The sculptors who made images for the idols, for the temples in particular.

So let's say that Sculptor is a generic term, but Sthapati would be idol makers.

So these idol makers who made temple figurines, they brought in the tradition of the Surasundaris in a very big way.

So because you know when you are looking and they also follow the Shilpa Shastras.

Translated by Gaston de Sille de Vere.

Life of Benedetto da Rovezzano, Sculptor Great, I think, must be the displeasure of those who, having executed some work of genius, yet when they hope to enjoy the fruits of this in their old age and to see the beautiful results achieved by other intellects in works similar to their own and to be able to perceive what perfection there may be in that field of art that they themselves have practiced, find themselves robbed by adverse fortune, by time, by a bad habit of body, or by some other cause of the sight of their eyes.

Whence they are not able, as they were before, to perceive either the deficiencies or the perfection of men whom they hear of as living and practicing their own professions.

And even more are they grieved to hear the praises of the new masters, not through envy, but because they are not able to judge like others whether the fame be well deserved or not.

Torja and the Star Crusaders carried forward the starburst banner of Vladimir in savage struggles against the machine kings of Atragon, the robot planet.

Great fleets of nomad planets steered on magnetic flux, venturing beyond the great home galaxy of man to the neighbouring island galaxies of Sculptor and Formax, the three Leonid galaxies, the greater and lesser Magellanic clouds, even to far Andromeda, that mighty whirlpool of suns, They saw men probe into the mystery of matter, probing deep into the hearts of spinning atoms, and one by one puzzle out and define the secrets of gravity and space and thought and time itself.

They saw the domed cities rise on airless worlds, bubbles of armour glass that sparkled amid the long ink-black shadows traced on the ash-white moonscapes along their daylight terminators.

The Sorellian Enigma was created, and the five time-travellers observed the enigmatists and their long struggle against the dominance of the star-masters of Anthlamar, and so on.

Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good: what penance then is due For my fierce heat chastened and taught by you? Fifteen.

The Lover and the Sculptor.

Non ha l'ottimo artista.

The best of artists hath no thought to show Which the rough stone in its superfluous shell Doth not include: to break the marble's spell Is all the hand that serves the brain can do.