Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 394
an. The Romanesquearchitect who désignée! the profile of this base probably was not ac-quainted with the Erectheum at Athens, though he had perhaps seenthe Byzantine profiles which Avere derived from it ; but it is clear thathe instinctively rejected the Roman profiles ^vhich were abundant ailabout… … y^ ; \^ t^.^ ï ï^^ ; ^-^ ■ .^^^— ■ ■ R ■,ÏL_-1. ■ ,1 J I always trace a method. At the end of the twelfth century, however,we can see that a decided change took place in the outline of thismember ; the lower torus was flattened, so as more effectually to graspthe plinth, which had reappeared ; but…
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![An illustration from M. Vitrvvii viri svae professionis pertissimi De architectvra libri decem, ad Avgvstum Cæsarem accuratiss. conscripsit & nvnc primvm in Germania qva potuit diligentia excusi, atq[ue] hinc inde schematibus non iniucundis exornati (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-mvitrvviivirisva00vitr-147-52.webp)
