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 241
(Figs. 97, page 204 ; 98, page 220), of the whole capi-tal.1 The fillet, moreover, which is at the top of the entab-latures horizontal cornice and is carried all around thepediment, as well, too, as around the whole corona of thecornice (Fig. 93, page 182), may form an equally effectivedividing… … !i^.r^:i There is no facade more suggestive of exact propor-tions than that of thetemple, of ^Egina (Fig.94, page 183), yet the ap-parent ratios on page 196 are as much astraywhen applied to it as toany other of the temples.Moreover, the ratios seemstill more astray when weexamine them more…
Aesthetics · Proportion (Art) · Color
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