A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 391
In fine art, theact of arranging jiarts in a design ; the termbeing equally applicable to colour taken byitself, or to line taken by itself, or to masses oflight and shade, or to all the elements of thework of art considered as making nji the generalresult. Also, tlie act of making such… … COMPOSITE C.\FITAL IN L.4TERAN MuSEUM .\T RoME COMPOSITION (11.). A material made upartitieiully and used in modelling decorativefriezes, centrepieces, and tlie like; a generalterm used for plastic material of unknown oruns|ieciHe(l ni:d;e. COMPOSITION OF FORCES. (See Paral-lelogram i)f Forces.)…
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