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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 263

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ngs. So while it re-15 226 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. presents the highest achievement of Greek architecture, italso represents the beginning of its decline. Subsequentlymen came, more and more, to forget to have their designsmanifest clearly the results of relative measurements.Gradually they became… … FIG. 101.—OLD PICTURE OF ST. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE.See page 226. putting large numbers of like dimensions with like, againcame to be considered necessary. See Figs. 11, page 37 ;12, page 38; 76, page 147; 81, page 155; 86, page 167, and101. It is considered so in all great architecture. In case…

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