Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 407
bered as a fact of tbe utmost impor-tance tbat, of ail tbe works of man, art is tbat wbicb suffers most fromtbe least imperfection ; and, to attain anytbing like perfection in art,two conditions are absolutely necessary : first, a man of genius or, inbis absence, a man of talent ; tben, to bim,… … EIGHTH DISCOURSE. ON THE CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF AR( HITECTIRE.—0\ SOJÎE OF THE PRIXCIPLES OFARCHITECTURAL C03IP0SITI0N. — ON TKE RENAISSANCE IN THE WEST AND ESPECIALLYIN FRANCE.
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