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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 284

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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… … Sculpture, Fig. 1; Assyrian (s !E Mesopotamia) :Mound of half ea|)itals which mark the architecture ofPersepolis are a nearer approach to sculpture inthe round than anything we have of Assyrianor Babylonian work used in connection withbuildings. Of Hittite and other Phcenician sculpture we457…

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