Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 245
e subject matter, an allegory repre-senting the Escape from Error, it does not touch either our interests, our sym-pathies, or our con-victions. Its onlypossible claim to in-terest is the dexteritydisplayed in the use ofa chisel, and in artisticvalue it is comparableto the Chinese carvingsof ivory… … Fig. 156.—The Escape from Error, by Queirolo.Naples. Eighteenth Century. while serious thought and conception were deficient. In our illustration from the Cathedral of Brussels we havean indication of the prodigality and luxury of sculpturedecoration in the important Catholic churches of the…
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