Architectural composition : an attempt to order and phrase ideas which hitherto have been only felt by the instinctive taste of designers (1908)
Robinson, John Beverley, 1853- · New York : Van Nostrand · leaf 98
Fig. S3-Two methods of giving unity to four masses. as well put a dozen or a score, for all alike lack concentrationand oneness; tending ever, as we increase the number ofunits, to that sense of infinity that attaches to a wall forti-fied with towers at equal intervals of which the eye candiscern… … we have just discussed in the grouping used in paintings bythe masters, in the day when composition in the grandstyle recognized certain types of arrangement. Take as an instance of a group of three the well-knownSistine Madonna (Fig. 55), with the Virgin central, and thepope and saint on each…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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