The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art

Name: The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art
Author: D. R. Hay

by D. R. Hay

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THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATES
INTRODUCTION.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY EVOLVED FROM THE HARMONIC LAW OF NATURE, AGREEABLY TO THE PYTHAGOREAN SYSTEM OF NUMERICAL RATIO.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY AS APPLIED TO SOUNDS.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY AS APPLIED TO FORMS.
On the Rectilinear Forms and Proportions of Architecture.
On the Curvilinear Forms and Proportions of Architecture.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN THE HUMAN HEAD AND COUNTENANCE.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN THE FORM OF THE HUMAN FIGURE.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN COLOURS.
First Series of Scales.
Second Series of Scales.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, APPLIED TO THE FORMS AND PROPORTIONS OF ANCIENT GRECIAN VASES AND ORNAMENTS.
The Portland Vase.
An Ancient Grecian Marble Vase of a Vertical Composition.
An Ancient Grecian Vase of a Horizontal Composition.
Etruscan Vases.
Ancient Grecian Ornament.
APPENDIX.
No. I.
No. II.
No. III.
No. IV.
No. V.
No. VI.
FOOTNOTES
Works by the Same Author.
I. In royal 8vo, with Copperplate Illustrations, price 2s. 6d., THE HARMONIC LAW OF NATURE APPLIED TO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.
II. In royal 8vo, with Copperplate Illustrations, price 5s., THE NATURAL PRINCIPLES OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN THE HUMAN FIGURE.
III. In royal 8vo, with Copperplate Illustrations, price 5s., THE ORTHOGRAPHIC BEAUTY OF THE PARTHENON REFERRED TO A LAW OF NATURE.
IV. In 8vo, 100 Plates, price 6s., FIRST PRINCIPLES OF SYMMETRICAL BEAUTY.
V. In 8vo, 14 Coloured Diagrams, Second Edition, price 15s., THE PRINCIPLES OF BEAUTY IN COLOURING SYSTEMATISED.
VI. In 8vo, 228 Examples of Colours, Hues, Tints, and Shades, price 63s., A NOMENCLATURE OF COLOURS, APPLICABLE TO THE ARTS AND NATURAL SCIENCES.
VII. In post 8vo, with a Coloured Diagram, Sixth Edition, price 7s. 6d., THE LAWS OF HARMONIOUS COLOURING ADAPTED TO INTERIOR DECORATIONS.
VIII. In 4to, 25 Plates, price 36s., ON THE SCIENCE OF THOSE PROPORTIONS BY WHICH THE HUMAN HEAD AND COUNTENANCE, AS REPRESENTED IN ANCIENT GREEK ART, ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM THOSE OF ORDINARY NATURE.
IX. In 4to, 16 Plates, price 30s., THE GEOMETRIC BEAUTY OF THE HUMAN FIGURE DEFINED.
X. In oblong folio, 57 Plates and numerous Woodcuts, price 42s., AN ESSAY ON ORNAMENTAL DESIGN, IN WHICH ITS TRUE PRINCIPLES ARE DEVELOPED AND ELUCIDATED, &c.
XI. In 4to, 17 Plates and 38 Woodcuts, price 25s., PROPORTION, OR THE GEOMETRIC PRINCIPLE OF BEAUTY ANALYSED. XII. In 4to, 18 Plates and numerous Woodcuts, price 15s., THE NATURAL PRINCIPLES AND ANALOGY OF THE HARMONY OF FORM.
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