The power of form applied to geometric tracery : one hundred designs and their foundations resulting from one diagram (1851)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · W. Blackwood and Sons · leaf 20
on of primary andsecondary forms that medieval architecture owes the peculiarcharm—that projecting and recessing of parts which dis-tinguishes it from more recent examples, as essentiallycontaining the elements of the picturesque. And it is theabsence of this quality which marks so decidedly the… … subject it was stated that the object was to carry onediagram to what would appear the possible limits of itsvarying power. This diagramis here exhibited, and it may bebriefly stated, that the powerof variation exists principallyin the enclosed spaces lyingwithin the large circle, andbetween the…
Decoration and ornament · Geometry in art · Geometry in architecture · Architectural design · Form (aesthetics) · Geometrical drawing
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