Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 365
of the projections •of my capitals and of tbe snpplementary corbels H, wbere necessary,I bave gatbered togetber in tbe axes of tbe lower columns tbe résult-ants of tbe combinations of tbrusts in tbe upper vaulting, and tbeseprojections and corbels, far from destroyiug tbat aspect of soliditywbicb… … If we construct a façade wbose two extrême latéral lines are per-fectly vertical, tbis façade, wben constructed, will be apt to seemlarger at tbe summit tban at tbe base (see Fig. 52) ; tbis also is anillusion, and one most offensive to tbe eye.f Tbe Greeks, tberefore, * See, for the most ample…
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