A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 284
man-headed bulls andsimilar creatures of religioussiifnificance are really relief-sculpture, a huge block beingworked on at least two ofits sides in such a way thata view of it taking in thefront and long side wouldshow the semblance of astatue in the round. Persian sculpture of the early kingdom… … Screen serving .is Choir Screen: Fvfield Chuuih, Berkshire;c. U80. have only relief, and that of no strictly architec-tural character, and some free statues like thosefound in Cyprus. The critical and historicalinferences hitherto drawn from it are not to beconsidered final. It is obvious that the…
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