A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 355
ROMAN STUCCO RELIEFS the walls, on the Via Latina, the enclosing pattern of circles and octagons and squares is as carefully planned and as delicately worked as the bas-reliefs themselves, which are of such slight and graceful … Fig. 105. Campagna of Rome. Stuccoes from a tomb on the Via Latina. Work of the first century a. d. figure subject as the Pompeian paintings of danc- ing maidens (see Fig. 105). These and other pieces previously known had excited in former times less attention than they deserved ; and all have…
Art · Decorative arts
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