Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 369
we hâve seen what a feeling theyhad for lines, and how this feeling was expressed by a veiy subtleand very fine study of natural laws and of the instinctive désires * Latéral door of the façade of the cathedral of Senlis ; close of the twelfth century. 300 DISCOUESES ON ARCHITECÏUEE. of the eye.… … The Greek architect, in designing, ahvays sacrificed the apparentgrâce of his geometrical studies to what he foresaw would be theirperspective efFect when executed. He knew that the angles of hisédifices, always seen obhquely and from accidentai points of vicAv.were the parts which required the…
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