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Leonardo da Vinci (Live)
You're Dead to Me
The Golden Ratio Theory
The golden ratio theory is that there is a composition in painting which is most pleasing to the human eye. We don't know if that's kind of pleasing just because of it, or maybe we're just used to seeing stuff in nature that tends to work to this ratio and therefore we find a pleasing result. The artists really structure geometry into their work. You are meant to understand maths. That's really part of an artist's training. So they're taking quite seriously. I mean, Leonardo, I think, takes it to an extreme. But this is a pretty common thing in Renaissance art. It ought to be based on mathematical principles. And Patioli is a Francescon friar
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