A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 288
URE sculpture, in what we consider perishaljlomaterials, is practically everlasting if it is caredlor. The temples and palaces of Japan arebuilt of wood, and the .sculpture is of panelscarved in relief or often pierced, the carvingshowing on both sides relieved partly againstflat background and… … Sculpture. Fig. 14: Canopy of the BishopsThrone; .\ncient Carved Oak Stalls;Cathedral of Palermo. will not reach them easily, and they are, further-more, protected, by different ai)])lianccs whichtlie extraordinary skill and patient care of theJapanese workmen have taught them to use ;but the…
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