Facsimile of the sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an architect of the thirteenth century : illustrated by commentaries and descriptions (1859)
Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century, Lassus, Jean Baptiste Antoine, 1807-1857, Darcel, Alfred, 1818-1893, Quicherat, Jules Étienne Joseph, 1814-1882, Willis, Robert, 1799-1878 · London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 363
them. Honecort's mode of distributing the base is quite contrary not only to that of the chapels in question, but to the ordinary practice of his time. The compound base is employed for the great vaulting-shafts of the interior, and also for the smaller shafts of the arcade beneath the windows.… … Fig. 33 — Bate-mold of the chapels at Rheims. The above sketch shews the real distribution. It represents a fragment of the lower part of the wall, including one of the compound piers in front of which the vaulting-shaft is placed, and on each side of it one of the small shafts of the arcade : the…
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