A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 348
too indifferent to do anything to arrest this decadence.The ornamental plaster work with which he contented himselfin the ceihngs of his churches has only one merit, it is usuallyright in scale; but it is as a rule trivial in the last degree, andthe tendency to over-elaboration was intensified by… … PANEL, BURWASH. out the slightest regard to that selection and subordinationwhich are necessary to good architectural ornament. Most ofGibbonss ceilings, such as that of the dining-room of MeltonConstable, are believed to be carved in wood, but they wereimitated as closely as possible in plaster…
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