Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 78
orativedetails, by a moreformal and rigid ap-plication of the Or-ders to wall surfaces.In the early Renais-sance the ornamentalscroll-work is moreelastic and spirited, thecarving of details isbolder and finer, therelief of the projectedcolumns and entab-latures is lower. The higher the pro-jection… … Fig. 25.—Cathedral of Versailles.Eighteenth Century. 70 Renaissance and Modern Art. higher and more numerous the projections of the ornament,the deeper and more numerous the shadows. These shad-ows again, when not determined by construction, detractfrom the effects of mass and the repose and power…
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