How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 307
uctional forms of the old work are reproducedso perfectly that the personality of the detail has disap-peared; and we ourselves frequently refer to a cataloguenumber for the decorative forms, or we turn a compressed-air machine with its pointers on an old form newly made,and reproduce age so… … FIG. I 10—STATE CAPITOL, BOSTON, MASS. THE GEORGIAN IN AMERICA Vitruvius, and Vignola, were far removed from the baseof supplies, but they must build and decorate with or with-out authority. Then the active commercial traveller ap-peared with his samples, travelling by schooner or stage-coach, from…
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