Self-portrait with Isabella Brant by Peter Paul Rubens and the Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden
Rectangle into squares (Self-portrait with Isabella Brant by Peter Paul Rubens).
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577
- 1640). Flemish painter, draughtsman and diplomat. He was the most versatile and influential Baroque artist of northern Europe in the 17th century.
He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
Self-portrait with Isabella Brant c. 1610, Oil on canvas, 174 x 132 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Rubens married Isabella Brant, the daughter of a leading Antwerp citizen and humanist Jan Brant.
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A golden rectangle
is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio,
one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive
feature of this shape is that when a square section is
removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is,
with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can
be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of
the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
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