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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 373

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son ineverjtlnng they dicl. Thiis, in tins portico of tlie Pandrosenm, weobserve tliat the foiu- anterior figures are posed, the two on tlie leftleaning on the riglit leg, and the two on the right leaning on the leftleg. The statues, taken hère as supporting members, fill exactiy thefunction of the… … ture, had not been united by the same thought ; that the sculptorhad worked apart from the architect, as often happens to-day, and,instead of disposiyg the figures as indicated in Fig. 58, at A, that is ANALOGIES BETWEEX GEEEK AXD GOTHIC TIIOUGHT. 303 to say, Itijjped outward, lie liad arrauged…

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