A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 42
radistinction to representative statuan-and painting. Thus, the statues set uponthe geison and showing against the tyni- < >i pamun of a Greek temple, or those upon theBernini colonnade at Rome, showing against thesky, are hardly called ornament; but the halffigures in an arabesque, however… … Ornament in Low HKI.IKK. liOTHIl Sculpture.
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