The Golden Ratio
(Excerpt from my book Decline and Fall of Western Art)
The formula for beauty that has been handed down to us is the Golden Ratio, also called the Golden Mean or Golden Section (in Latin, Sectio Aurea). It is the æsthetically perfect proportion and a root principle in all traditional European architecture, painting, sculpture and music. Two quantities are in the Golden Ratio if their ratio is the same as th…
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