. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . and complement through the use of uneven. FIQ. 37.—GROUND PLAN FOR A CATHEDRAL. 96 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. rather than of even numbers, may apply to perpendicularas well as to horizontal arrangements. To one lookingupward at a building, for instance, the basement oftenseems to complement the roof, or a first story to comple-ment a third ; while the principal part, or, at least, thepivot-line of balance,
. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . and complement through the use of uneven. FIQ. 37.—GROUND PLAN FOR A CATHEDRAL. 96 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. rather than of even numbers, may apply to perpendicularas well as to horizontal arrangements. To one lookingupward at a building, for instance, the basement oftenseems to complement the roof, or a first story to comple-ment a third ; while the principal part, or, at least, thepivot-line of balance, seems to be between them. It isworth noticing in this connection, too, that the Greeks,according to all testimony, almost invariably groupeddifferent architectural features, whether placed perpen-dicularly or horizontally, according to proportions deter-mined by odd numbers, i, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; and also the fact,which our own experience has probably confirmed, thatthe majorit} of men feel that a house or tower having anequal number of openings or divisions of spaces eitherhorizontally or perpendicularly—say exactly two or fourwindows on a story, or two or four stories with noapparent basement or roof—is less pleasing tha
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