A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 492
s and entablature, andthis crowned by a stepped pyramid, the lionand his own pedestal resting upon this, thewhole about 63 feet high.823 it is unusually severe and formal. The culmi-nating point of the peculiar system of design,constituting almost an independent style, is inthe monument of Mastino… … TOMB. TLATE II Mnimment in the churcli of S. Thomas at Stras-burs, cnmniemovatiimtUe Marshal Mauricede Saxe,who <Ued in 1750. It is the work of the spulptorJean Baptiste IMgalle. and perhaps his masterpiece.It is also the finest specimen in Europe of tlieile-scriptive and highly allegorical tomb…
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