A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 287
t the architectural province proper;and supporting members such as pillars, as wellas those less essential to the buildings life, arefound carved into extremely spirited and often,to our eyes, grotescjue forms of conventionalizedhumanity and of imagined beast anil bird. Therock-cut buildings of… … Sculpturic, Fui. 10: French Gothic; Hurgun-DIAN School; Crockets of a Capital. able as affording no relief—no reserved spacesto separate jiart from jiart of the higiily wroughtrepresentative design. This feeling never failsto disa|ipear to a great extent as customdiminisiics tlic strangeness of…
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