Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 60
cts carrying this point so faras, in the ceilings of their rock-cut temples, to copy joists and planks.Many Chinese houses, for exauiple, hâve wooden porticos whose lin-tels are oupported by posts assisted by brackets made of cm-vedpièces of wood as indicated in Fig. 3 ; while in the crypts… … examples the bracketed capitals supporting the rock-cut beams areevidently réminiscences of wood and wooden constructions. Thepillar with the square base in Example 5, which passes to theoctagonal form and then to the sixteen-sided polygon, and finallyreturns to the octagonal and the square at the…
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