Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture : an essay in comparative æsthetics (1899)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 187
ight,Peter Legh, in the Music of the Eye (see page 27), incommenting on Vitruvius, says : If simple analogies areto be our guide in all the eurithms and all the symmetries,the best rule for height seems to make it equal to halfthe sum of the length and the breadth ; these would belofty rooms, but… … PROPORTION IN ARCHITECTURE. 151 the breadth, height, and length would be respectively two,three, and four. Whatever may be thought of these and other like state-ments, notice that, whether applied to exteriors or interi-ors, the important consideration is that there should besome apparent…
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