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A Description of the Theory of Harmony and Proportion in Renaissance Architecture

A Description of the Theory of Harmony and Proportion in Renaissance Architecture

Rudolph Wittkower (1901-1971) contrasts the approach of architects from the High Renaissance period, who relied largely on musical theory for their mathematics, with those of the ancient Greek and the medieval period, who used geometric constructions based upon the triangle, the square, and the pentagon.

Book Recommendation: A Journey with Jonah, Part Three - Art and Literature Through Centuries

Book Recommendation: A Journey with Jonah, Part Three - Art and Literature Through Centuries

Every Christian artist today must create fresh new works in accordance with tradition and resist the temptation to be satisfied with impressing the cognoscienti and their friends at dinner parties, not resting until they can connect with the mass audience.

Ron Gaudio's blogpost on Pythagoras and his lasting influence on Western Civilization

Ron Gaudio's blogpost on Pythagoras and his lasting influence on Western Civilization

For Pythagoras and many other Greek philosophers, the beauty of the cosmos reflected not only a harmonious order but divinity itself. That is why they were also a community that worshipped. Pythagoras’s legacy reached even to the United States, being responsible for the architectural beauty of Monticello, Harvard Hall, and the Capitol Building.