Sentence examples for classical proportion from inspiring English sources

There's a classical proportion; you could be in Rome.

Through the 16th-century Late Renaissance architecture of Andrea Palladio in the Veneto region of Italy and the ancient sites of Greece, he discovered classical proportion.

Specifically, Dr. Brown said, what makes Ms. Dunaway's face ideal is the classical proportion of the triangle formed by the canthus (corner of the eye), the malar prominence (cheekbone) and the lateral brow.

He has laid out and built 25 houses already, using his own idiosyncratic rules of classical proportion involving a set of ropes and a great deal of guesswork, "like the ancient Greeks did".

What Ms. Newhouse likes most about Bilbao is the variety of spaces in which art can be experienced: square galleries of classical proportion; smaller rooms whose irregularly sculptured contours evoke the curves of the museum's metal exterior; a "boat gallery," 450 feet long, that displays work in a loftlike setting.

As in other schools, the Escuela Libre de Arquitectura has sessions devoted to experimental design and Classical proportion, but there are also regular visits to construction sites to understand the mechanics of poured-in-place concrete.

Classical proportions are clearly not the order of the day.

Michelangelo, among many others, came to study the arch's famous classical proportions.

There was no hell-for-leather drama in the first movement, only classical proportioning.

The industrial buildings erected before World War I, Mr. Zinki said, "were based on classical proportions from the Renaissance".

Everything admired about Swedish style -- the classical proportions, the pale palette, the charming textiles -- can be traced back to him.