reek, his care and energy weredevoted largely to the refinement of the structure of his creations. Analysis of any fine Greek design is sure to disclose an arrangement of areawhich produces the quality of inevitableness, so conspicuously absent in mod-ern art. An example of such a theme is… … Fig. I. Nolan Amphora in the Fogg Museum at Harvard. an area, it is composed of a square plus the reciprocal of a root-two rectangle,;. e., I. plus .7071, the fraction being the square root of two divided by two. The amphora is contained within the area of a root-two rectangle plus asquare on its…
Vases, Greek
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