The Divine Proportions
of Greek Art!

"Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
Pythagoras of Samos: Greek geometer, “The father of numbers” (580 - 490 BC)

Pythagoras of Samos, the Greek geometer, showed that the human body is in a divine proportion to all the other body parts. His discoveries of human body proportions had an enormous effect on Greek Art. Every Greek major building, to the smallest decoration detail, was constructed upon this Divine Proportion.

The Parthenon is the perfect example of mathematical approach to Art!


Throughout history, the ratio for length of rectangles of 1.6180339887 has been accepted as the most pleasing to the eye. Phidias (480-430 BC) the ancient Greek sculptor, painter and architect is universally regarded as the greatest of all Classical Sculptors. He sculptured the bands that run above the columns of the Parthenon. There are golden rectangles throughout the Parthenon structure, which is located in Athens, Greece.

The Dazzling Perfection of Calculated Geometric Harmony!

“Paint a Rainbow inside of you, paint a Rainbow and let your smile shine through. When it’s cold and gray, push the clouds away, paint a Rainbow in your heart.”- Lyman Frank Baum

The second half of the 5th century BC was the Golden Age of Greece. This was the period of the most beautiful Greek Art and Architecture. Both owed much to the popular new study of geometry. By the start of the next century, geometry itself was entering its own classic age with a series of great developments including the Golden Mean, the golden mathematical ratio or proportion based on a Phi (F = 1.618033988749895..) It can be derived with a number of geometric constructions. This ratio has been used by mankind for centuries and continues today in many examples of Art, Architecture and Design. It also appears in the physical proportions of the human body, movements in the Stock Market and many other aspects of life and the universe.

Source: GoldenNumber.net - Phi The Golden Number

The times were glorious in many ways. Pericles (495-429 BC) the Leader of Athens was rebuilding Athens into the most beautiful city in the world. The buildings had a dazzling perfection never seen before.

Even after Athens lost in the war with Sparta, geometry continued to flourish in the Athens of the restored aristocracy. In the 4th century, the study was carried on in schools with grounds and buildings of their own. The first and most famous of these was the Athens Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the western world, founded by the great philosopher Plato (427-347 BC). The Athens Academy was located in an olive grove a half-mile outside of town. Over its gate was the inscription: “LET NONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER HERE”.

The enormous influence of Greek Artistic History on Ancient and Modern Cultures

"A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Legend Artist (1452 - 1519)

The time of the 15th and 16th century is called Renaissance (rebirth) because the Europeans rediscovered the work of the Greeks. Scientists took over the Greek idea that the nature can be best described through mathematics. Their way of describing nature was to paint it in a way which gives the observer the same impression as the scene in real life does. This led to a revolution in painting, to a new style in which the main tool was geometry. The mathematicians of the Renaissance created a whole new system, “The System Of Perspective”, that is still taught in Art Schools today.

Famous Renaissance Artists

* Leonardo da Vinci, The Legend (1452-1519) Italian polymath, a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all times and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. * Leonardo’s Artwork Paintings and Drawings: Mona Lisa, Annunciation, St. John the Baptist, The Last Supper, Madonna with the Carnation, Adoration Of the Magi, Portrait Of A Young Lady, Lady With the Ermine, Sala delle Asse (Detail), Portrait Of A Musician, Portrait Of A Young Woman, Madonna with the Cat, Litta Madonna, and many more. * Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510) Italian painter of the Florentine School during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). His highly personal style was characterized by elegant execution, a sense of melancholy and a strong emphasis on line details. * Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564) Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet & engineer. He is considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. * Sandro Botticelli’s most familiar masterpieces of Florentine Art: The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts the Goddess Venus having emerged from the sea as a full grown beautiful woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The Primavera Painting (The Spring in Italian), announces the arrival of spring. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. * Michelangelo’s famous Sculptures: The Pieta (1498–1499) is a marble sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. The first of a number of works of the same theme by Michelangelo. This famous work of Art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. The statue is one of the most highly finished works by Michelangelo. Bacchus, Battle of the Centaurs, Cristo della Minerva, Crucifix, Cupid, David, The Deposition, Moses, St. Petronius.

Greece has a rich and varied Artistic History. Spanning some 5000 years begins with the early Bronze Age Culture of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea (3000-2000 BC) and the Minoan pre-historical Bronze Age Civilization which arose on the Greek island of Crete (2700-1450 BC).

These gave birth to Western Classical Art (further developing it during the Hellenistic Period (4th - 1st century BC). Great Hellenistic Ruler: Alexander III The Great (Megas Alexandros) July 20 356 BC – June 10 323 BC, the Ancient King of Macedon (336–323 BC). Alexander III The Great, is the most successful military commander in history and was undefeated in battle. Alexander conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria, Mesopotamia and extended the boundaries of his Empire as far as Punjab, India.

The history of the Mediterranean region is taking in the influences of Eastern Civilizations and the new religion of Christianity in the Byzantine era (AD 600-1453), absorbing Italian and European ideas during Romanticism period (with the invigoration of the Greek Revolution (1821–1829), until the Modernist (1884-1914) and Postmodernist (1960-) periods. Greek Art is mainly found in four forms: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Painted Pottery.

The Art of the Ancient Greeks and Romans is called Classical Art. The first and greatest period of Classical Art began in Greece about the middle of the 5th century BC.

Classical Art is also used to describe later periods in which Artists looked for their inspiration to this ancient style. The Art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from the Greek models. The Romans learned sculpture and painting largely from the Greeks and helped to transmit Greek Art to later ages. Classical Art owes its lasting influence to its simplicity, reasonableness, its humanity and its sheer beauty.

The Greeks had plenty of beautiful Marble and used it freely for their Temples as well as for their sculpture. They were not satisfied with Marble’s cold whiteness and painted both their statues and their buildings. Some statues have been found with their great bright colors still preserved.

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