Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 276
e, it is true, the triglyphs of theGreek Doric order ; but why may not the Greeks, primitively, hâveborrowed this détail from the Phœnicians or Jews ? The sculpturedpalms, garlands, disks, grapes, and especially that gieat carved squareframe, to which the entablature serves as a crowning member,… … art. Observe (Fig. 31) this fragment of frieze, with its triple palms,the angular way in which they are eut, its bunches of grapes, andits crowns, suspended by knotted cord. Sce again (Fig. 32) thèsefragments of the frame, composed of olive and vine leaves. XeitherGreeks nor Romans, especially tlie…
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