picture-painter, he must needs strainhis ironwork up to and beyond theutmost limit of the material in a vainattempt to render pictorial imagery.In a more ductile metal, like gold orsilver, such modelled devices mighthave been legitimate and in their effectsatisfactory. But in ironwork it couldnot…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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