Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 556
t withoutcopying, and to adaptthe suggestions of thepast to the specialneeds of the present.Architecture was nowbetter understod thanat the outset of theRevivals; it was oncemore becoming a vitalart, closely related tomodern life. The mul-tiplication of museums and schools, on both sides of… … ^S Fig. 33r.- -A Scotch Town Hall, btR. Sandilands. 441 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT The Nature Movement. In the mid-Victorian period, about 1850, the Britishpubhc began to reaHze that in many hnes of industrythe British products were outclassed by the Continental,especially the French, because of the…
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