A letter from Naples'states thai a boy" i not more than 10 years of age,* named 3 Giovanni Gargano, the son of an " 1 itinei ant dealer in lemonade, has just exhibited before the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts at Naples, a group . executed in clay, representing theosubject 4 of a painting, the " Descent frpm the I Cross," preserved in the church ?of San * Francesco di Paolo.- and much admired by - artists. As the members of the society re- '. fused to believe the boy to be ihe* author , of 'this group,- Grargano quietly ; asked fbr /■] some cJay, and immediately modelled, be- • fore the company, a copy of a . statue j •which was in the room. The artists pre- j sent, astonished at this precocity, im- \ mediately look measures for affording the '- child the means of cultivating his wonderful talent. , "
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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 106, 26 October 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)
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