Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 510
cbitects of antiquity did or did not avail tliemselvesof this figure, it is certain, as we sliall presently see, tliat tlie me-dia?val masters made it tlie generative principle of some of tlieirgreat buildings. Let us apply to tbe transverse section of tlie basilica of Constantineat Rome (Fig. 89)… … ^ ;.a^U.-,-iJN|: extrême beigbt of tbe main vault ; and tbat by means of tbeirintersections D and F witb tbe longitudinal nave walls, tbev fix tbeextrême beigbt of tbe entablature of tbe grand order witb wbicb tbebail is decorated. Tbe sides A B and A C give also tbe points Gand H, wbere tbe arcbes…
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