Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 59
relief, any object which so stands out from another object, that it plays an important part in the outline of the whole object. For the same reason then, that the figure in the niche, because it does not play a part in the general outline, is treated imitatively; so the figure out of the niche,… … Fig. 16. and rigidity of form in a high relief object. This is one of the eight colossal figures of
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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