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Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)

Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London : J. and A. Arch · leaf 147

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helatter indeed have been destroyed in the storms of the revolution, exceptthose in the soffites of the arches, where angels are represented withwings and fiddles, and these are very little damaged. Many parts areornamented with Arabesques, and some of the capitals have the Gothictrefoil… … CaPITAX of COLUMNS IN THE PORCH OF XOTltii JiAJviE AT iv NOTRE DAME AT DIJON. 121 body here calls it, the great lines of the construction were better pre-served than they were afterwards. I met a gentleman who contendedthat this porch was copied from a Roman arch of triumph, and presentedall the…

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