Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 231
al embellishment. I remarked that the Orientals are our superiors in archi-tectural ornamentation, because among them that ornamentationnever obscures the dominant conception ; on the contrary, italways powerfully aids its expression, and is its natural mani-festation. It must indeed be observed at… … Fio. 2.—Idea of the Greek Temile. are too often conspicuous in the arcliitectuie of these latter days.I am aware that by a certain school idea in art is regarded asof secondary miportance; but the fact is that idea in art hasan knperious aspect, or at any rate a far from subordinate one ;its…
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