[31] “Anacharsis’ Travels in Greece.” By the Abbé Barthélémie, vol. ii., p. 325.
[32] “Anacharsis’ Travels in Greece.” By the Abbé Barthélémie, vol. vi., p. 225. The authorities the Abbé quotes are—Quintil., lib. xii., cap. x., p. 744; Plin., lib. xxxv., cap. ix., p. 691.
[33] Müller’s “Archæology of Art,” &c.
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THE HARMONIC LAW OF NATURE APPLIED TO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.
From the Athenæum.
The beauty of the theory is its universality, and its simplicity. In nature, the Creator accomplished his purposes by the simplest means—the harmony of nature is indestructible and self-restoring. Mr Hay’s book on the “Parthenon,” on the “Natural Principles of Beauty as developed in the Human Figure,” his “Principles of Symmetrical Beauty,” his “Principles of Colouring, and Nomenclature of Colours,” his “Science of Proportion,” and “Essay on Ornamental Design,” we have already noticed with praise as the results of philosophical and original thought.
From the Daily News.
This essay is a new application to Lincoln cathedral in Gothic architecture, and to the Temple of Theseus in Greek architecture, of the principles of symmetrical beauty already so profusely illustrated and demonstrated by Mr Hay. The theory which Mr Hay has propounded in so many volumes is not only a splendid contribution towards a science of æsthetic proportions, but, for the first time in the history of art, proves the possibility, and lays the foundations of such a science. To those who are not acquainted with the facts, these expressions will sound hyperbolical, but they are most true.