Meanings of modern sculptors in English

Hawthorne is rather too exacting in his requirements of modern sculptors.

Hitherto modern sculptors had either made reliefs or statues for niches.

Thorwaldsen seems the grandest and simplest of modern sculptors.

The precious wonderful pipe, souvenir of dead Antoletti, greatest of modern sculptors, had disappeared, none could say whither.

The statue was made specifically for the chapel by one of New Zealand's most notable modern sculptors, Jim Allen.

Or finally, did they simply leave the stone in its natural condition, like the Italians and the modern sculptors generally?

The greatest of modern sculptors is reputed to have reached his present altitude by the passionate pursuance of Nature, and of the expressions of Nature.

Still, it is worth while to remember that the pure white statues of modern sculptors would not have satisfied Greek artists of the classical age.

On the imaging arts, Hemsterhuys made this ingenious remark, that the ancient painters were perhaps too much of sculptors, modern sculptors too much of painters.