Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture; an essay in comparative aesthetics (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 191
Fig. yj, page 150. This figure isall the more convenient for our purposes, because of itsexcess of ornamentation, justifiable to some extent, how-ever, as said on page 348 of Painting, Sculpture, andArchitecture as Representative Arts, on the ground ofits being one of the chief entrances to the… … as 2 : I ; to the width of the space occupied by the twopillars as 2 : 2 ; to the height of the window as 2 :4 ; tothe height of the whole storey in which each high win-dow is situated as 2 : 5 ; to the height of the triangularpediment at the top as 2 :3 ; and to the distance that the curved part…
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