A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 286
tionalized leaf-form and of fiat sur-faces of rigid anthemion designs in low re-lief on the one hand, and on the otherhand, human subject worked to its highestpitch of artistic perfection. The conse-quence must have been that the sculpturein the pediment and even that in themeto|)es of a rich… … AT BRAUWEILER on THE RhINK. thought of the sculpture of incident and repre-sentation and the half-architectural, half-sculp-turesque forms which we know as anthemions,egg and dart moulilings, ivy leaf pattern, mean-ders, and rosettes. A building without thesculpture of human figure would have been…
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