Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 357
nfidently, and fight for precedencewith the architrave lines ; and there is an entanglement of thetwo structures, in consequence, like the circular and radiatinglines of a cobweb, until at last the architrave lines get worsted, * The architrave is properly the horizontal piece of stone laid across… … DECORATION. XXVIII. THE ARCHIVOLT AND APERTURE. 339 and driven away ontside of the vonssoirs; being permitted tostay at all only on condition of their dressing themselves inmecliseval costume, as in the plate opposite. § v. In other cases, however, before the entire discomfiture ofthe architrave, a…
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