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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 161

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th of the foot is the side of a rectangle composed of two whirlingsquare rectangles and a half. .618 multiplied by two and a half equals 1.545.The area between the handles and bowl, on each side, equals two squares or .5.The area between the foot and the bowl, on each side, is composed of a… … Sh»> 3 2 36 8.wi 3 6,3 . [slWlTl Fig. 10.(Measured, drawn and analyzed by L. D. Caskey.) Kylix 01.8022, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fig. 10, has an overall shapeof two whirling square rectangles or 3.236, while the bowl proportion is a whirl-ing square rectangle plus a square, or 2.618.

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