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Dynamic symmetry; the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Conn., New York City, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 165

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the foot is the side of a rectangle composed of two whirling square rectangles and a half. .618 multiplied by two and a half equals 1.545. The area between the handles and bowl, on each side, equals two squares or .5. The area between the foot and the bowl, on each side, is composed of a square… … M.F.A. 01.8022 Shafie 3 236 = | W j W | Bowl 2.613 = | S |wf5] Fig. 10. (Measured, drawn and analyzed by L. D. Caskey.) Kylix 01.8022, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fig. 10, has an overall shape of two whirling square rectangles or 3.236, while the bowl proportion is a whirl- ing square rectangle…

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