Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 544
Fig. 322.—Detail, Tomb inPere-la-Chaise, Paris. THE MODERN REVIVALS exterior polychromy; the paintings on the front of thechurch had at last to be scraped off, and the experimentleft no lasting results in French architectural decora-tion. Even the polychrome effects attempted by Gar- … FiG. 323.—Details from Houses ix Paris. nier in the fa9ade of the Opera by the use of rich coloredmarbles and gilding long ago lost their original valuesand faded into the general gray tonality of thewhole. 431 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT The Gothic Revival. While one group of revivalists in Great…
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