A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 68
rk, usu-ally of timber and scantling. This, in modemtimes, is covered outside by boarding, shingUng,sheet metal, and the like, and within by woodslieathing or by plaster. In the Middle Agesami ill the fifteenth and following centuriestimber limises tlircmghout Eiu-ope were elabo-rately fi.uiicil,… … roiild • 1I lik(^ \, large flat ceilings of palaces and neoclassicchurclies, were framed witii wood, carved andgilded, and the whole composition of manypietures and tlieir frames h;.s reiiiailU.l in placeperiliaiieiitly for thre( eeiitiiries. SoiiiethiM!,(,f tiiis is seen in the iiinvaMe frames…
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