Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 49
22 MEDL^VAL ART and their desires, to build thesecarve them from top to bottom, titanic platforms,cover them withstatues as dense as the lives of the jungle, and supportthem in space on the aerial festoon of the lacelikeogives and the inextricable scaffolding of the columns.Here are statues upon… … Mahavellipore (viii Century). Bas-relief on the rock. imposed. The columns may be round or square orpolygonal, in sections or monolithic, smooth or fluted orcovered with carving that has an appearance of danger,like masses of reptiles moving in oily circles, like pus-tules that throb and rise, like…
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