Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 187
e gables, are elegant, but perhaps sogenerally distributed as to be a little confusing. The effect is scattered,and thus weakened, instead of being massed at one or two central or sali- 184 ART IN AMERICA. ent points. This is the most glaring error we discover in the present im-portation or… … a childs portrait.—[b. c. porter.] No buildings of this century are so profusely ornate as some of the mag-nificent cathedrals and town-halls of the Middle Ages; but at the sametime all this sumptuousness of decoration was massed upon one or twoeffective spots, surrounded by large spaces…
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