Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed · New York, Appleton · leaf 707
ht, of shade ; colour, or mere beauty of formin detail, having no part in it whatever. Flatsurfaces are not admitted; all are concave orconvex: this constant varying of the surfacegives every point of view its high lights andbrilliant contrasts. The Louis Quinze style differs from thatof Louis… … ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTION. 691 The ornaments of which we have thus given examples are, in general,applied to interior decorations, to friezes, pilasters, panels, architraves, thefaces and soffits of arches, ceilings, etc., to furniture, and to art-manufacturesin general. For exteriors these…
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