Proportion and harmony of line and color

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Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 459 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 124 - From the middle of the arm to the beginning of the hand, five noses. The longest toe is a nose long. The two utmost parts of the teats, and the pit betwixt the collar-bones of a woman, make an equilateral triangle. For the breadth of the limbs, no precise measures can be given, because the measures themselves are changeable, according to the quality of the persons and according to the movement of the muscles.
الصفحة 123 - From the chin to the pit betwixt the collar-bones are two lengths of a nose. From the pit betwixt the collar-bones to the bottom of the breast, one face. From the bottom of the breasts to the navel, one face.
الصفحة 409 - ... of every human mind, and both, considered as types, expressing the law of gradual change and progress in the human soul itself. What the difference is in mere beauty between a gradated and ungradated...
الصفحة 123 - ... of his left, as broad as he is long. From one side of the breasts to the other, two faces The bone of the arm, called humerus, is the length of two faces from the shoulder to the elbow. From the end of the elbow to the root of the little finger, the bone called cubitus, with part of the hand, contains two faces. From the box of the shoulder-blade to the pit betwixt the collar-bones one face. If you would be satisfied in the measures of breadth.
الصفحة 376 - How did Rubens and Veronese find such brilliant and beautiful yellows ? " He resolved to go to the Louvre, and ordered a carriage. It was in 1830. At that time in Paris there were many cabs painted canary-color.
الصفحة 49 - ... in the same way that the division of the time of vibration in music, into an exact number of equal parts, agreeably affects the ear.
الصفحة 28 - The ratios are in some instances so recondite, and the correlation of the parts at first sight so apparently remote, that many would be inclined to believe they were more fanciful than real. It would, however, be as reasonable in a person with no ear, or no musical education, to object to the enjoyment of a complicated concerted piece of music experienced by those differently situated, or to declare that the pain musicians feel from a false note was mere affectation. The eyes of the Greeks were as...
الصفحة 210 - In the two temples that have been considered, the whole height from the base of the column to the apex of the pediment seems to have been divided into equal parts at the bottom of the column's capital. The same, as we shall find presently, was true of the Parthenon. In other temples, this division seems to have been made at the bottom of the abacus of the capital. One of these is the Propylaea at Athens, the central temple in Fig. 95, page 1 86 (P., pi.
الصفحة 124 - If you would be satisfied in the measures of breadth, from the extremity of one finger to the other, so that this breadth should be equal to the length of the body, you must observe, that the boxes of the elbows with the humerus, and of the humerus with the shoulder-blade, bear the proportion of half a face, when the arms are stretched out. The sole of the foot is the sixth part of the figure.
الصفحة 123 - Humerus, is the length of two faces from the shoulder to the elbow. " From the end of the elbow to the root of the little finger, the bone called Cubitus, with part of the hand, contains two faces. " From the box of the shoulder-blade to the pit betwixt the collar-bones, one face. " If you would be satisfied in the...

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