Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 560
are bandedwith dehcate horizontal Unes as indicated at h, — a pecuhar treatmentwhich occiirs in shafts of the epoch of the Sassanides and even miichlater, as in the Alhambra at Grenada. It is well to observe hère,while speaking of bases, that the artists of the twelfth century, whentliey rcsted… … Romans never observed ; it was a refinement peculiar to Greek andniediaeval genins. I am aware that to associate sucli names as Athensand Saint-Antonin, Pompeii and Déols, as I hâve donc, will soundstrangely in some ears ; bat what shall I do ? the monuments arethcre, and if I hâve misrepresented…
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