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Hambidge, JayWe have 1 book for this author.It has been suggested that The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) Jay Hambidge (1867-1924) was an American artist, born in Canada. He was a pupil at the Art Students' League in New York and of William Chase, and a thorough student of classical art. He conceived the idea that the study of arithmetic with the aid of geometrical designs was the foundation of the proportion and symmetry in Greek architecture, sculpture, and ceramics. Careful examination and measurements of classical buildings in Greece, among them the Parthenon, the temple of Apollo at Bassæ, of Zeus at Olympia and Athenæ at Ægina made him formulate the theory of dynamic symmetry as demonstrated in his work Dynamic Symmetry: the Greek Vases (1920). It created a great deal of discussion, an English critic saying that Hambidge did not try to formulate a new theory, but to recover a lost technique. He found a disciple in Dr. Lacey D. Caskey, the author of Geometry of Greek Vases (1922). See also
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