Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 367
e made vertical (Fig. 54), theopening would appear larger at the sumniit than at the base; so,to cancel tliis illusion, the Greek architects adopted the sanie expé-dient hère and inclined their jambs inward (Fig. 55), thus not onlysatisfying another instinct, that the same width is not required at… … The architects of the twelfth century, though adopting forms ofarchitecture and Systems of construction very différent from thoseof the Greeks, were directed by similar instincts. They ahvaysdiminished their façades towards the summit, not by inclinationsof lines, which are inadmissible except…
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