![]() ![]() The length of the foot is one sixth of the height of the body of the forearm, one fourth and the breadth of the breast is also one fourth. If we take the height of the face itself, the distance from the bottom of the chin to the under side of the nostrils is one third of it the nose from the under side of the nostrils to a line between the eyebrows is the same from there to the lowest roots of the hair is also a third, comprising the forehead. For the human body is so designed by nature that the face, from the chin to the top of the forehead and the lowest roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the whole height the open hand from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger is just the same the head from the chin to the crown is an eighth, and with the neck and shoulder from the top of the breast to the lowest roots of the hair is a sixth from the middle of the breast to the summit of the crown is a fourth. Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple that is, if there is no precise relation between its members, as in the case of those of a well shaped man.Ģ. From this result the principles of symmetry. Proportion is a correspondence among the measures of the members of an entire work, and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard. They are due to proportion, in Greek ἀναλογία. ![]() ![]() THE design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. CHAPTER I: ON SYMMETRY: IN TEMPLES AND IN THE HUMAN BODYġ. ![]()
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