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 231
res 0.420; from the top of the same tothe rings of thecapital measures1.020; while thecornice measures0.680. In the tem-ple of Phigaleia(C, pi. 6), the aba-cus measures7i25, the corona6^9, the cornice973, and the mid-dle step of the stylobate 9883. In the Propylaea, the cen-tral temple in Fig. 95,… … FIG. 96.—THE PARTHENON. See pages 15, 1S6, igo, 201, 211. GREEK ARCHITECTURAL PROPORTIOXS. I9I 1.814. In the Temple of the Giants at Agrigentum, theabacus measures 0.853 s^<^ the cornice 1.374. We haveleft now only two temples to which we have not appliedthese principles. In that of Jupiter at…
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