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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 150

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Black-glaze Skyphos 397 in the Stoddard Collection at Yale, Fig. 16,has a 1.854 ratio. As AB is the diagonal to a square the area of this vase with-out the foot is equal to a root-four rectangle. The bowl, as shown by E, has a1.236 ratio or two whirling square rectangles. G is the center of the… … Fig. 17. Yale Skyphos 399. Yale black-glaze Skyphos 399, Fig. 17, has an overall ratio of 1.854 whilethe bowl is 1.236, and the vase without the foot is a root-four rectangle. DYNAMIC SYMMETRY 113

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