A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 498
; Japan, Architecture of.) TORCH. In architectural decoration, anemblem tViunded upon si-ulptured representa-tions; in Greco-Ronian work, usually, of a bundleof strips held together by occasional withes orbands. This feature is generally repeatedwithout a clear understanding of its signifi-cance.… … Torch Holder, Bronze, l.nH Centlry ; PalazzoDEL Magmfico, Siena. TORELLI, GIACOMO tect; b. 1608; d. 1678.833 painter and archi- TORREGIANO Torelli was especially associated with therapid development of the construction and
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