Abstract
This paper demonstrates that in Greek art geometry and not inspiration was the basis of proportion and the fundamental of design. It gives the actual method, hitherto lost, that was employed in the application of geometry to design by artists and craftsmen of the fifth century B.C. The subject matter contained in this article was obtained by its writer in an investigation into the proportions of the Parthenon. In his book2“The Parthenon: Its Science of Forms,” the writer deals only with the temple and the design of the Acropolis and of the city of Athens and its port of the Piraeus, but in this article he gives in a simplified form the canon of proportion which can be applied today in every branch of art, the canon which the Greeks employed in producing the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Pericles.
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