Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary monuments. (1898)
Tiffany Studios · The Company, New York · leaf 29
DOOR MEMORIALS THAN ANY OTHER FORM,AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. THE ANCIENT GREEKSBROUGHT THEM TO THE GREATEST STATE OFARTISTIC EXCELLENCY, THEIR HEADSTONES SUR. PASSING IN BEAUTY AND DIGNITY THOSE OF ALLOTHER PEOPLE OF ALL TIMES AND COUNTRIES,AND NO BETTER MODELS CAN BE FOUND TO-DAY.A HEADSTONE SEEMS A… … THE COMMON-PLACE HEADSTONES FOUND IN OURMORE MODERN CEMETERIES, THE MERE WORKOF EVERYDAY STONE-CUTTERS AND OF NO ARTVALUE. THE FORMS OF HEADSTONES ARE ASVARIOUS AS THE STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE, AND EVERY ARCHITECTURAL PERIOD HAS ITS OWNVARIETY, BUT THOSE BELONGING TO CLASSICALTIMES, THROUGH THEIR…
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