symmetria

For visible beauty, for works of architecture or sculpture, symmetria, that is, commensurability, was the principal term; for audible beauty, for musical works it was harmonia, that is, consonance.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

When a term like symmetria is used by a late antique rhetorician, one should probably not expect it to have the rigorous precision of meaning that it conveyed to a sculptor of the fifth century B.C.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

When a term like symmetria is used by a late antique rhetorician, one should probably not expect it to have the rigorous precision of meaning that it conveyed to a sculptor of the fifth century B.C.

BEHIND THE EPIGRAPH-CROCHETED VEIL 2008

Dr. Pollit's influence can be gleaned from an excerpt in his book that I highlight as an epigraph in Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole: When a term like symmetria is used by a late antique rhetorician, one should probably not expect it to have the rigorous precision of meaning that it conveyed to a sculptor of the fifth century B.C.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

Non habet Latinum nomen symmetria (“Latin does not have a word for ` symmetry '”).

SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coronæ symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Such a violent contrast in scale broke the principle of συμμετρια {symmetria}, that strict relation of the part to the whole which the Greek artists maintained elsewhere with scrupulous care.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

The latter is, it is true, proportionate in its vastness; but the symmetry of mere bulk is not the symmetria prisca of ideal sculpture.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

It has, more than any other long composition by its author, that quality of symmetry, that symmetria prisca recorded of Leonardo da Vinci in the Latin epitaph of Platino Piatto; and, as might be expected, its mental basis, what Rossetti called fundamental brain-work, is as luminous, depth within depth, as the morning air.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

The latter is, it is true, proportionate in its vastness; but the symmetry of mere bulk is not the _symmetria prisca_ of ideal sculpture.

Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880