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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 593

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, sarcophagi, and countless furnishings,thus developing a decorative art of unexamjdedrichness and fertility, founded on Roman models■which it far surpasseil. The great developmentof vaulting in medi;eval architectiue helpedthem. They found in it hints lor vaidts of agreat variety of shajies, and… … NEOCLASSIC OF THE Style Louis Treize : ChuechOF S. Gervais and S. Protais, Paris. The architects of the seventeenth century,however, tired of the formality of the pseudo-classic. The desire for freedom and noveltjrevived. Then came the season of lirojiortionsrelaxed, of details lawlessly and…

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