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STANDARDIZED PROPORTION OF THE GREEK VASE AND ORNAMENT 1
Author(s) -
Gardner Robert W.
Publication year - 1926
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1926.tb18349.x
Subject(s) - greeks , acropolis , subject matter , art , canon , subject (documents) , classics , mathematics , visual arts , literature , history , ancient history , computer science , sociology , pedagogy , library science , curriculum
This paper demonstrates that in Greek art geometry and not inspiration was the basis of proportion and the fundamental of design. It gives the actual method, hitherto lost, that was employed in the application of geometry to design by artists and craftsmen of the fifth century B.C. The subject matter contained in this article was obtained by its writer in an investigation into the proportions of the Parthenon. In his book 2 “The Parthenon: Its Science of Forms,” the writer deals only with the temple and the design of the Acropolis and of the city of Athens and its port of the Piraeus, but in this article he gives in a simplified form the canon of proportion which can be applied today in every branch of art, the canon which the Greeks employed in producing the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Pericles.