A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 178
and this was hardly architectural sculp-ture, but rather carving put upon a wall asa convenient place for its exhibition. Greekdecorative sculpture was very limited in thenumber of its parts and in its application, thesculptures which now excite our wonder havingbeen almost free from architectural… … the constant succession of bliml and open tra-ceries, arcades, moulded bands and (-ornices,pinnacles resting upon open cages of light stone-work, too numerous, too varied, and too fanciful277 have been tliat the building would better carryott the abundant wealth of representative sculp-ture which…
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