Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 109
reason, the Greek architect insensibly passed fromthe capital A, whose echinus resembles a cushion, a soft body inter-posed between the shaft and the abacus, to the capital C, whose formand almost bald profile expresses an energetic support, briuging theweight of the abacus, and that which the… … If we examine thèse profiles attentively, we shall see tliat tlie rea-son of the constructor and tlie sentiment of the artist proceed togetherin them. The architrave, bearing on the capital A, the most ancientof the three, présents its face at D, on a line with the shaft. Subse-qnently tlie…
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