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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 206

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, merelyshows the method of interchange run mad. As applied to measurements, consonance and interchange,respectively, are merely less regular forms of repetition andalternation. Every Greek temple (Figs. 10, page 36, and80, page 153) manifests alternation in the measurementsof pillars and spaces… … 169 FIG. 87.—ST. ETIENNE DU MONT,See pages 167, 168. 170 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. and the tympanum (Figs. 10, page 36, and 94, page 183),while the pillars are much higher than these, though usu-ally sustaining to them, as we shall find, an apparent pro-portional relationship. In St. Stephens, Caen…

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