SAJ : Serbian architectural journal [Size: scale and proportion]

Abstract

Scale and proportion in art and architecture are both concerned with size: while scale refers to the size of an object in relationship to another object (relationship of parts of an image to the image as a whole, or to something in the world outside of the image), proportion refers to the relative size of parts of a whole (proportion refers to the relationship of parts of a body or form to one another and of the parts to the whole).Throughout the history of art, many artworks represent what was considered as an ideal based on the ancient classical Greek model and therefore serve as an illustration of both scale and proportion in art...