Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 311
to them ; by the second, indicated atB, the columns are made to appear higlier and more meagre, andthe entablature loses its value. Thus, a certain order, which seernsheavy, may be made to appear light and airy ; another, of slenderproportions, may be made solid and firm. Color, therefore, has… … The sensibility of the Greeks was far too délicate not to hâve beenimpressed with the architectural importance of a principle which, bythe mère application of varions colors, was capable of thus alteringthe expression of form. As for us, we are so completely under thedominion of rooted préjudices,…
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