Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 236
pect to theapplication of style to their work, are yet very superior to us. Thus,in building an arcade bearing a wall, they were accustomed to giveto the arch-stones {voussoirs) of their arches ail the strength neces-sary to their function, and they decorated thèse arches Avith mould-ings… … similar archivolts ; but, barbarians that we are, we build them up asindicated at B, where the mouldings of the archivolt do not follow theconstructive line of the voussoirs, which jut ont beyond the archivoltand fit into the courses of masonry above ; this is the merest non-sense. The architect…
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