The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 191
ne-glected as though they were consi.lered beneath the notice of e ,«^ J^ •Tl names of such men as Ghiberti, John of Bologna, Benvenuto Celhn,,and others, who have left us th.ir beautiful works, along with larger ones,could not sutler such an opinion for a moment to be entertained ; but it iswell… … Leaf flower, bird, or figure, were executed with so much feeling, and suchtrulli to nature, that even the simplest articles of common use or ornameutjin dress were real works of art; nor could a censer, salver, goblet, or acrucilix, that was fashioned by the same hand as that which wrought…
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