Proportion, or, The geometric principle of beauty, analysed (1843)
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866 · Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and Sons · leaf 18
arious forms bear to one another in ren- dering their combinations harmonious. Proportion is, in short, that geometrical quality in forms and figures by which they are rendered pleasing to the sense of sight, independently of their use or any other consideration. A short description of the… … iris, or that part which denotes the colour of the eye, being a fiat membrane of a circular form, having in its centre the pupil, apparently a dark circular spot, but in reality a simple aperture in the opaque membrane that surrounds it, its seeming depth of colour being derived from the darkness…
Proportion (Art)
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