American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 448
ts as should have beenconveyed in a monument to Washington, was one which admitted of discussion. Certainly, as heretreated, it was too conventional for a use so august and exceptional. If this design had beenadopted as the central feature for a great town-hall, it would have had tp submit to no… … AMERICAN ART 367 the florid and more of the serious in expression; we would make the architecture for the sculpture,and not the sculpture for the architecture; we would rather have an architectural enshrinement ofinscriptions and bas-reliefs than a mere conventionality of windows, balustrades, and…
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