Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 63
anner. If still more remarkable examples ofthis fact are needed, observe, in the engravings of M. Texier, therock-cut tombs of Asia Minor, — those crypts whose bays mightalmost be mistaken for constructions in wood. The primitivestructm-es of Central America * présent the same… … a décoration represented in Fig. 9, evidently sijggested by theshavings left by the carpenter when bringing his wooden posts toa square. The omaments of the structures include chaplets ofbeads and a quantity of that kind of engraving so easy to exécutein wood, and of which ail primitive peoples are…
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