person
Pomponius Gauricus
Gauricus
also: Pomponio Gaurico
Italian humanist (c. 1481-1528), author of the early theoretical treatise De Sculptura (c. 1504); Rilke takes a maxim of his as an epigraph.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §3 Pomponius Gauricus
Italian humanist (c. 1481-1528); his De Sculptura (c. 1504) was among the first theoretical treatises on the art, and Rilke borrows its maxim that sculptors work not through words but through deeds.