A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 492
mns and entablature, andthis crowned by a stepped pyramid, the lionand bis own pedestal resting ujjon this, thewhole about 63 feet high.823 it is unusually severe and formal. The culmi-nating point of the peculiar system of design,constituting almost an independent style, is inthe monument of… … TOJIB. PLATE II Monument in the church of S. Thomas at Stras-burg, comuiemovatingthe Marslial Maurice de Saxe,who died in 1750. It is the work of the sculptorJean Baptiste Pigalle, and perhaps his masterpiece.It is also the finest specimen in Europe of the de-scriptive and highly allegorical tomb…
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