Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 506
em recommendthemselves by a certain grandeur of aspect, by the majesty of theirmasses, or by the beauty of their détails, very few are completely sat-isfactory in their proportions. Thus the arch of ïrajan, rebuiltunder Constantine, is indecisive and unstudied in this respect ; thatof Septimius… … and fully satisfies the eye. Let us therefore endeavor to ascertain onwhat principle its proportions were obtained (Tig. S6). Hère again we find that the generative principle by which the lineswere disposed was the ecjuilateral triangle. The key of the arch is 4:20 DISCOUESES OX ARCHITECTURE. at…
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