Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 375
ilt up in low courses of masonry, and tbe latterconstructed witb enormous blocks. Tbese différences of conditionsnaturally bad tbeir influence on ail tbe forms given to arcbitectitre,even in tbeir vertical lines. Tbe artist instinctively felt tbat a ma-sonic wall of low com^ses of stone, wbatever… … construction. His a.im then was to obtain, especially for the angles,pure hnes to define his gênerai profiles more strictlv. So, as indi- GOTHIC DEYICES FOE EIGID MASOXRY. 305 cated in Fig. 59, lie inserted into tliis angle a monolitliic column, soisolating it fi-oni tbe snrroimding masonry as to…
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