The Online Books Page

Symmetry (Art)

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Form (Aesthetics)

• Proportion (Art)

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004)
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google
• Theory of Symmetry and Ornament, by Slavik V. Jablan (illustrated HTML at emis.de)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Tālamāna or Iconometry: Being a Concise Account of the Measurements of Hindu Images as Given in the Āgamas and Other Authoritative Works (Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India #3, 1920, reprinted 1977), by T. A. Gopinatha Rao
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's "Four Books on Human Proportion": Renaissance Proportion Theory (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, trans. by James Hutson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Divina Proportione: Opera a Tutti Glingegni Perspicaci e Curiosi Necessaria oue Ciascun Studioso di Philosophia; Prospettiua Pictura Sculptura; Architectura; Musica; e Altre Mathematice; Suavissima; Sotile; e Admirabile Doctrina Consequira; e Delecterassi, Co Varie Questione de Secretissima Scientia (in Italian; Venice: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509), by Luca Pacioli, contrib. by Antonio Capella, illust. by Leonardo da Vinci
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Alberti Dureri Clarissimi Pictoris et Geometrae de Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Huanorum Corporum, Libri in Latinum Conuersi (in Latin; Nuremberg: In aedib. viduae Durerianae, 1532), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at Vatican Digital Library)
• La Genesi Dello Scorcio nell' Arte Greca (in Italian; Rome: Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1907), by Alessandro Della Seta
  • page images at Arachne
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form (London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1842), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Science of Beauty, As Developed in Nature and Applied in Art (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Shibusa: Extracting Beauty (Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press, c2012), ed. by Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens (PDF with commentary in the UK)