...attitudes, and in the draperies, and the management of the background Composition and symmetry of temples. The several parts which constitute a temple ought...architecture. Symmetry results from proportion, which, in thi Greek language, is termed analogy Proportion is the commensuratior of the various constituent part;...

...grouping, in the attitudes, in the draperies and the management of the background. In architecture, the several parts which constitute a temple ought to be subject to the law» of symmetry, the principles of which should be familiar to all who profess the science of architecture....

...Parthenon, we must accept as literally correct the statement of Vitruvius, when, after observing that " the several parts which constitute a temple ought...subject to the laws of Symmetry, the principles of which ought to be familiar to all who profess the science of architecture," he says — " the artists of...

...Vitruvius remarked that symmetry results from proportion, and that proportion is the commensuralion of the various constituent parts with the whole, in the existence of which symmetry is found to exist. Now, in order that lines, surfaces, and solids, may be harmoniously related to the whole figure,...

...knowledge of the principles of Greek art seems to have been traditionary and incomplete. Yet he says, " The several parts which constitute a, temple ought...to the laws of symmetry ; the principles of which ought to be familiar to all who profess the science of architecture. Proportion is the commensuration...

...knowledge of the principles of Greek art seems to have been traditionary and incomplete. Yet he says, " The several parts which constitute a temple ought...to the Laws of symmetry ; the principles of which ought to be familiar to all who profess the science of architecture. Proportion is the commensuration...

...wonder than the blind feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight." ARCHITECTURE BY VITRUVIUS. " Proportion is the commensuration of the various constituent...whole ; in the existence of which symmetry is found to exist." This definition of proportion, given by Vitruvius in the first chapter of the third book of...

...architect who lived almost five hundred years after the best Greek work was finished. He tells us that "the several parts which constitute a temple ought...analogy. Proportion is the commensuration of the various parts with the whole, in the existence of which symmetry is found to exist. For no building can possess...

...Chronique d'Egypte 26 (1951), pp. 63-66. Vitruvius defines: "Symmetry results from proportion . . . Proportion is the commensuration of the various constituent parts with the whole." For a more elaborate modern attempt in the same direction see George David Birkhoff, Aesthetic measure,...

...became synonymous with order and restraint in art and architecture. ' 'Symmetry results from proportion, proportion is the commensuration of the various constituent parts with the whole. ' Vitruvius The whole object of maths is to create order where previously chaos seemed to reign, to...