A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 594
s, altars,shrines, sarcophagi, and countless furnishings,thus developing a decorative art of unexampledrichness and fertihty, founded on Roinaii modelswhich it far surpassed. The gnat develoimientof vaulting in mediieval arcliitccture lieljied them. They found in it hiigreat variety of shapes, and… … ^n m9f\ The architects of the seventeenth century,however, tired of the fonnality of the i)8eudo-classic. The desire for freedom and noveltyrevived. Then came the season of proiiortioimrelaxed, of details lawlessly and i>icturo.s.pielyhandled, which ha« been called the l!aroc(., andsoon the time…
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