Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 390
the endof the twelfth century. THE YILLAGE CHUECH OF MOATREALE. 315 behold, in this simple édifice, an art full of élégance, and mouldings,■\\liicli, though rare, arc of incomparable beauty and eut witli a per-fection equal to that of Greek profiles of the best epocli. Tlie sculp-ture, whicli is… … a tliird of its diameter, bearing tlie transverse arcli A of the vault.In order to stop the longitudinal and diagonal ribs (B and C) of thevault, the architect has corbelled ont the pilaster D in profile, and 316 DISCOURSES OX AECHITECTURE. crowned it witli a continuation of tlie abacus of tlie…
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