Dance of the Villagers by Peter Paul Rubens and the Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden
Rectangle into squares (Dance of the Villagers 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.
Dance of the Villagers c. 1636 Oil on board 28 3/4 x 41 3/4 in (73 x 106 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid
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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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