Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 67
which each niahes with the preceding one alwaysthe same. Then a curve drawn through the extremitiesof the lines will be a beautiful curve; for it is governedby consistent laws; every part of it is connected by thoselaws with every other, yet every part is different fromevery other; and the mode of… … Fig. ■^. If we make the difference between tlic component ormeasuring lines less, as in Fig. 8, in which each line islonger than the preceding one only by a fifth, the curve LraES. 33 will be more contracted and less beautiful. If we enlargethe difference, as in Fig. 4, in which each line is…
Art · Aesthetics
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