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C. Golden Ratio in
Arts

Golden Ratio shows beauty,

balance and harmony in art, Fragment of Euclid Book Pentagrams

architecture and design.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452 -
Phidias (490 BC - 430 BC) widely
1519) or known as Leonardo da Vinci was
used the golden ratio in his works of
into invention, painting, sculpting, architecture,
sculpture. The exterior dimension of the
science, music, mathematics, engineering,
Parthenon in Athens, Greece
literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy,
embodies the golden ratio.
botany, writing, history, and cartography.

Parthenon The Last Supper Vitruvian Man Monalisa St. Jerome

In “Timaeus” Plato (428 BC - 347 Michelangelo di Lodovico Simon (1475
BC) describes five possible regular - 1564) or known as Michelangelo was a
solids that relate to the golden ratio. He painter, architect, poet, and engineer from the

also considers the golden section to be Renaissance. He was considered the greatest
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mathematical relationships.

The Creation of Adam

Euclid was the first to give

definition of the golden ratio as “a

dividing line in the extreme and mean

ratio” in his book the “Elements.” He

proved the link of the number to the Holy Family

construction of the pentagram, known

as golden ratio.

ZANNIE I. GAMUYAO, MSM
Assistant Professor 1 UNIT 1.2 The Fibonacci Sequence
Department of Arts and Sciences