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Dynamic symmetry; the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 151

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METRY no Skyphos 01.8076 in the Boston Museum, Fig. 11, has a bowl ratio of 1.236 and an overall area of 1.764. This latter ratio frequently appears in Greek design. Fig. 12. Boston Skyphos 01.8032. Skyphos 01.8032 in the Boston Museum, Fig. 12, has a bowl ratio of 1.236, and, apparently, an… … Fig. 13. Yale Skyphos 398 Black-glaze Skyphos 398, at Yale, Fig. 13, has a bowl ratio of 1.236 and an overall area of 1.809. ^-^ is a whirling square rectangle from the 1.809 ^^e^- GB is the diagonal to a square and the point H shows that without its foot the vase is a root-four area.

Design · Vases, Greek

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