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 245
weexamine them more care-fully (C, plate 4). Wediscover that the columnsmeasure 17^2 8, the en-tablature 6 9 790, andthe pediment 7 3 o.There are no indisput-able ratios to be madeout of these numbers,and yet, as was said, theproportions of the build-ing, as one looks at it,seem unusually… … FIG. 97.IONIC COLUMN AND ENTABLATURE. See pages 203, 219, 220. about 5 f 6. Under this tympanum came the cor- PROPORTIONS OF GREEK TEMPLES—FRONT. 20$ nice, the distinguishing feature of which was the flatcorona, and this measured f 675. Under the coronacame the architrave and frieze, the two…
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