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[2007-09-05 07:44:12 +0000 UTC]
"Lets get technical"
(Sweden)
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Favourites: 474; Deviations: 104; Watchers: 12
Watching: 34; Pageviews: 8242; Comments Made: 591; Friends: 34
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For an architect ought not to be and cannot be such a philologian as was Aristarchus, although not illiterate; nor a musician like Aristoxenus, though not absolutely ignorant of music; nor a painter like Apelles, though not unskilful in drawing; nor a sculptor such as was Myron or Polyclitus, though not unacquainted with the plastic art; nor again a physician like Hippocrates, though not ignorant of medicine; nor in the other sciences need he excel in each, though he should not be unskilful in them. For, in the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.
Still, it is not architects alone that cannot in all matters reach perfection, but even men who individually practise specialties in the arts do not all attain to the highest point of merit. Therefore, if among artists working each in a single field not all, but only a few in an entire generation acquire fame, and that with difficulty, how can an architect, who has to be skilful in many arts, accomplish not merely the feat -- in itself a great marvel -- of being deficient in none of them, but also that of surpassing all those artists who have devoted themselves with unremitting industry to single fields?
- The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Vitruvius is famous for asserting that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas -- that is, it must be strong or durable, useful, and beautiful. According to Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. As birds and bees built their nests, so humans constructed housing from natural materials, that gave them shelter against the elements. When perfecting this art of building, the Ancient Greek invented the architectural orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. He gave them a sense of proportion, culminating in understanding the proportions of the greatest work of art: the human body. This led Vitruvius in defining his Vitruvian Man, as drawn later by Leonardo da Vinci: the human body inscribed in the circle and the square (the fundamental geometric patterns of the cosmic order). [link]
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Thank you! Sorry for being slow to respond :3
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no problem
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Taaack sΓ₯ mycket fΓΆr att du favvade min bild
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Snygga bilder! Dig ska man hΓ₯lla ett ΓΆga pΓ₯. ; )
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thank you so much for the favorite on instructions on crashlanding !!
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Thank you for paying some attention to my picture and leaving comment which made me smile 
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Ack!
It's been a long time since i heard from you Mister!
How are you?
By the way, Lovely gallery.
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Lot of thanks for faving my Ancient Egypt Dreams!! I have in my gallery another egypt drawing if you want to check and some stuff like this
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Thanks for the fav on WILD DANCING WOMAN! BQ.
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dang, dude... a (2 month) late thanks for all the fav's
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thank you Shiprat for your comments and all those faves, it touches me!
How's it cold in Sweden at the moment ?
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Its not really that cold.. ten Celsius below perhaps, but the snow has melted and the frozen again and so every centimeter of ground is covered in ice :S
Walking to the bus is a matter of life and death id you dont have the right kind of shoes
Thanks for sharing your awesome things!
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Thank you so very much for the favourites!!
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tack fΓΆr favesen <3, kul o se lite berga bor Γ€r pΓ₯ dA
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Tack fΓΆr att du visar din konst fΓΆr oss mindre begΓ₯vade
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Thanks a lot for the fav,
Greetings
ArtFractalis
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