A GOLDEN RECTANGLE IN SOME RENAISSANCE WORKS
The Golden rectangle has been known since antiquity as one having a pleasing shape, and is frequently found in art and architecture as a rectangular shape that seems 'right' to the eye.
Can we find a Golden Rectangle in art? Did artists use it?
Some students of the Istituto Magistrale
“A.Veronese” of Montebelluna
research where we can find the Golden Ratio in art.
These are the study results:
Domenico Veneziano
The Madonna and Child with Saints, 1445
Brunelleschi
De' Pazzi Chapel 1429-1461
Masaccio
Trinity, fresco in the Santa Maria Novella in Florence 1426-1428
Madonna and Child, 1426
Piero della Francesca
Flagellation, approx.1453
Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro or Brera altarpiece), 1475
Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus, 1485
Primavera, 1482
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper, 1495-1497
Drawing
Raffaello Sanzio
Sposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary), 1504
The Transfiguration, 1518-20
Giorgione
Madonna and Child Enthroned between St Francis and St Liberalis, c. 1505
Tiziano Vecellio
Venus with Organist and Cupid, 1548
Andrea Palladio
villa Barbaro in Maser1555-1559
Redentore's church 1577-1592
