ABSTRACT
Carving, Modelling and Agostino particular, was so entire an expression of limestone, that a relief could add nothing structurally; while, executed in perspective, it would have disturbed the limestone geometry of the planes. It was as if architecture almost completely absorbed, and then restricted, carving aim. In some other countries, a more developed relief has still been part of the architecture without so marked a subservience. The other extreme is attained by some Indian temples in which structural conception might appear to be sacrificed to what is called ornamental carving: a misnomer; for the carving has not been conceived as distinct from the structure. It is the structure.
