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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 181

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t-five figures by diagonals to the square, diagonals to the whole and diago-nals to a square plus a root-five shape. The diagonals of the whole cut thediagonals of the secondary square and a root-five figure at I and J. Thesepoints fix the width of the lip. The points K and L are intersections of… … Fig. 16. Red-figured Lekythos G. R. 589, Metropolitan Museum, New York.(Measured and drawn by the Museum Staff.) CHAPTER TWELVE; STATIC SYMMETRY r ~^HE basic idea in static symmetry, particularly as it is foundapplied in Saracenic and in mediaeval art, was stated by thewriter in a paper read before…

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