The Golden Proportion
Regarding a picture annalysis of our Lady of Guadalupe, we could say that it is a picture of remarkable beauty. According with Alberti, in a painting we must observe in general terms the colour, the line and the composition. About the composition, we define it as the harmonic union of the parts to make a whole, making an unity in the variety of the objects. One of the most beautiful manners to obtain it, is the golden, gold or divine proportion It is formed by an square to which a rectangle is added, in order to make an space in which the minor side belongs to the bigger in relation of 1 to 1.6181 denominated golden number or ( ). This golden proportion appears in all art expressions. From Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, until now. It had been studied by Pitagoras, Euclides and Vitrubio. In the Rennaissance it was investigated by Uccello, De la Francesca, Paccioli and Alberti. Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and Durero utilize it frequently and also modern painters as Mondrian. It is also used in the sculpture and in the architecture since Ictinus in the Parthenon until Le Corbusier. It is finded also in the proportions of the different parts of the human body or in several animals, is the model of growing of the vegetable gems, snails fossils and may be identified in the form of the Galaxies and in association of atoms from some moleculs. For all those things it is an important technic element that gives unit, equilibrium, balance, ellegance in all Universal Art
Regarding the central seam of the Juan Diego's "tilma", the golden proportion is identified clearly in our Lady of Guadalupe's image. This golden proportion gives an special beauty and also when it coincides in its development with practically all the parts some details had been added to the original painting. It is also an important argument to show the aesthetic value of the image to which it is not possible to add or to take away any element if its original place without deterioring its beauty.
It makes also unprobable, from the aesthetic point of view, that we can find so many signals of different disciplines, it is imposible to consider ithat is only a fruit of the casuality.
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