Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428874827
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Excerpt from The Building News and Architectural Review, 1861, Vol. 7: A Weekly Illustrated Record of the Progress of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Engineering, Metropolitan Improvements, Sanitary Reform, &C., &C., &C It is, indeed, high time that this enlightened purism, should inter fere to put a period to the arbitrary restorations that sometimes change the action of a figure, place a common-place head on magnificent shoulders, or remove that charming surface that one could style the skin of the marble. It is high time that it should destroy those modern accessories added by the caprice of an ignorant sculptor, and which often have been a source of serious errors to those antiquaries whose remoteness compelled them to make use of incorrect engravings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
