. International studio. inlike manner, that of Martiny. It is prob-able, however, that themore simple decorativeparts, such as the sculp-tured voussoirs of the outerarch in the northern andsouthern portals, the capi-tals of the columns, andprobably the enrichedmoldings and such likepurely architectural orna-mentation, are rather thework of the architects them-selves and of their deco-rative designers, influencednew structure rci)lacing the U])per i)art of the old by the traditions of the Italian Renaissance, thandoorpiece at that end of the facade. It has seemed the unrestrained work
. International studio. inlike manner, that of Martiny. It is prob-able, however, that themore simple decorativeparts, such as the sculp-tured voussoirs of the outerarch in the northern andsouthern portals, the capi-tals of the columns, andprobably the enrichedmoldings and such likepurely architectural orna-mentation, are rather thework of the architects them-selves and of their deco-rative designers, influencednew structure rci)lacing the U])per i)art of the old by the traditions of the Italian Renaissance, thandoorpiece at that end of the facade. It has seemed the unrestrained work of an American sculptor atnecessary to exi)lain in this way the character of the beginning of the Twentieth century,the undertaking which the gift of those bronze It remains to be said that the broad frieze in two doors was made to include. There are not many short lengths, which flanks, as it were, the openingpersons now wlio remember the aspect of the of the middle doorway, is the work of Mr. OCon-original church, a. CENTRAL PORTALST. BARTHOLOMEWS DANIEL C. FRENCH, SCULPTORmkIM, MEAD & WHITE, ARCHITECTS iiough the ui)per ])art of thefront, containing nearly half of its superficies, re-mains unaltered. The scheme of the design was elaborated by thefirm of McKim, Mead v*t White, and as it was dear nor. It is ])robal)Ie that this twofold compositionexcites the immediate attention of the student morethan anv other detail. Perhaps the best way to study such a piece ofcombined sculpture and architecture, carried out from the commem ement that .sculpture would be along traditional and yet original lines of thought, the art most in evidenie, .so a complete scheme, re- is to take one-third of the whole design, such as the minding us of the work of the Renaissance masters north doorway, and consider it more in detail, upon a monument of the Sixteenth century, took The tympanum over the door, with its relatively shape through the combined go(xi will of architects large figures and its
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