Mona Lisa Monna Lisa -- Leonardo Da Vinci's Use of Sacred Geometry

For Advanced Polymath Studies a www saseassociates com a Art Education An analysis of Da Vinci's famous painting For background to understand this analysis better I recommend reading Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks Oxford World's Classics New Edition by Leonardo da Vinci Author Irma A Richter Compiler Martin Kemp Preface Thereza Wells Introduction Evidence that Da Vinci used Sacred Geometry specifically the ancient geometry used in the planning and construction of religious structures as well as for sacred spaces to lay out his painting BEFORE he started to paint in order to align his model while using a camera obscura or camera lucida as suggested by David Hockney In addition author artist architect polymath Leon Alberti described methods for achieving accuracy in drawing complex shapes by using a wire grid window and other methods in his book Della Pittura in 1435 Also Da Vinci did the geometric drawings for De divina proportione by mathematician Luca Paccioli that provides a geometric analysis of the human face a http 3A 2F 2Fen wikipedia org 2Fwiki 2FLuca Pacioli 29 a It is interesting to note that the pentagon is associated with the number phi so is the positioning in the painting Mona Lisa This number phi is also known as the perfect or golden ratio aka 1 61803399 The golden ratio is the believed to be beautiful as it is seen many places in nature along with the Fibonacci numbers contributed by kontaktseistrup This animated geometric analysis of the Mona Lisa based upon a modification of the original analysis done by Robert diCurcio As a primer for those witha serious interest I recommend A Night of Numbers - Phi's The Limit http www youtube com watch v SD-ZiqDvnKo feature plcp Sacred Geometry Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor ISBN-10 0500810303 Also see a www goldennumber net 2Fbody htm a PowerPoint presentation was made using INSERT Circle and line and ANIMATIONS Fade and Wipe commands Zoom to 200 and hold down the Alt key to fine tune the placements Music is Her Touch available through footgagefirm com For thorough review of Sacred Geometry in art visit the CGImaging channel on YouTube He has some great tutorials Also watch Disney's classic of Donald Duck in Mathematicsland starting at 7 17 a http 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DWZH3PBdH5WQ a Also after getting getting comments that included extreme expletives racial ethnic and religious slurs etc I chose comments pending As an example the most recent episode was from a Neo-Nazi whose channel advocated rape of black women in his background artwork In addition stats indicate that between 10 and 20 of viewers are between 13 and 17 However I do welcome real debates see below For more information contact Dr John F Sase at a http 3A 2F 2Fsaseconomics com 2F index php a or a http 3A 2F 2Fsaseconomics com 2Fcontact html a When you're done here take a look at a http 3A 2F 2Fwww lascarpublishing com 2Fleonardo 2F 2C a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DRgq9SsqdyQA 2C a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3D1gUpK9tx2RQ a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3Dm4iwN xdBUA a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DdcOHoyC8i9w 23t 3D244 a geometry at 4 04 5 15 a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3D85e4zqMh-gs 2C a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DJZvGbjeUymo 2C a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DDzDaykZY4cI 2C a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DK 8ZtZ3Q9lU a

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