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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 286

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f it, as will presently be shown, not only by the Greeks,but also by the Egyptians before them and by the Romansafter them. Subsequently, the fact seems to have beencompletely ignored, and though, within the last half cen-tury, attention has again been directed to it, its full im-port has not yet… … 246 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. with measurements designed to cause the parts of thebuilding, when appearing as they do, to seem to be inproportion. To avoid the confusion of thought resulting from con-founding these two different aims it seems necessary, asintimated on page 180, to notice, first of…

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