Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 516
work is good, it is because it isbased on a good principle, intelligently and loyally foUowed. The transverse section of the cathedral of Amiens (Fig. 9.2) pré-sents a harmony of proportions obtained by the superimposition oftwo Egyptian triangles. The base A B of the lower triangle ABCreposes,… … T iK j i i TRAXSVEESE SECTION OF THE CATHEDRAl OF AMIENS. n—r PROPOETIOXS OF CATHEDRAL OF AMIEXS. 4.:27 tlie lowest nieiuber of tlie decorated striiig-course J), wliicli extendsuniiiterrupted aromid tlie whole interior of the édifice. The baseA B, divided into four parts, gives, at the points 1 and…
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