Harmony
Throughout the history people aspire to surround themselves with beautiful things. At some point the question arose: What is the basis of a Beauty? Ancient Greeks developed the science of aesthetics as a way to analyze a Beauty, believing that a Harmony is its basis. Beauty and Truth are interrelated: an artist searches for the Truth in the Beauty, and a scientist for the Beauty in the Truth.
There are many well-known "formulas of beauty" such as certain geometrical shapes: square, circle, isosceles triangle,
and pyramid. However, the most wide-spread criterion of beauty is one unique mathematical proportion called the Divine
Proportion, Golden Section, Golden Number, or Golden Mean. The Golden Section and related to it Fibonacci numbers
permeate the history of art. Examples of well known works, which exhibit this proportion, are Khufu`s Pyramid of Egypt,
the Parthenon in Athens, Greek sculpture, the "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci, paintings by Rafael, Chopin`s etudes,
music of Beethoven and Mozart, "Modulor" by Corbusier…
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Leone Battista Alberti spoke about the Harmony :
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There is something greater, composed of combination and connection of three things (number, limitation and
arrangement), something that lights up the face of beauty. And we called it Harmony, which is, doubtlessly, the source
of some charm and beauty. You see assignment and purpose of Harmony in arranging the parts, generally speaking,
different in their nature, by certain perfect ratio so that they meet one another creating beauty. It encompasses all
human life, penetrates through the nature of things. Therefore everything that is made by Nature is measured by the
law of Harmony. Also there is no greater care for the Nature than that of everything created by it to be perfect.
It is impossible to achieve this without Harmony; therefore without it the greatest consent of the parts is disintegrated.
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