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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 171

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two squares. The coordination of detail to the whole shape is entirely by diagonals of square and root-two. An early black-figured dinos, 13.205 in the Boston Museum, Fig. 5, is a static example. The curve of this vase, however, is interesting because it shows clearly what, in the writer's opinion,… … Fig. 4. Lekythos 06.1021. 125, Metropolitan Museum, New York. (Measured and drawn by the Museum Staff.)

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