The author has made a geometric analysis of a facade in an early Renaissance tenement house (No 101) in Litomyśl in Czechoslovakia. The object of the analysis was to compose the missing gable; the original high stone gable of the house was destroyed and replaced with an empiric attic. However, the arrangement of the inside of the house with a side vestibule, deep back route and rooms en suite with groined vaulting have been preserved. The house’s gable reconstructed on the basis of a geometric analysis corresponds in proportions to divisions and dependencies resulting from the support of rectangle with sides of 1:2. Its dimensions are derived from geometric proportions of the preserved part of the
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