The essentials of æsthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1921)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 377
, is the vase; and this is almost invariablyconformed to vertical elliptic-lanceolate outlines. SeeFig. 78, page 353. In this the heavy continuous lines areelliptic-lanceolate, such as are formed by the convergenceof two circles. The dotted lines describe regular ellipses;and the slight continuous… … m FIG. 80.—WOMANS FORM ENCLOSED BETWEEN CIRCLES.See page 355. we consider it as exemplified in the cupola or the dome,is like that described within the space enclosed betweencircles in the centre of Fig. 79, page 354, and even if thebuilding be wide, the form preferred for this is one con-taining…
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