MERRY CHRISTMAS AND DONA NOBIS PACEM
The purpose of this report is to show how to create something as opposed to producing an effect; that is, to create the causal process for an effect to be produced as a thoughtful or beautiful object. That was the method of Leonardo Da Vinci and of Raphael Sanzio who both painted objects as if they were “beautiful.” However, what was actually beautiful was not the objects they painted as such, but the process by means of which they showed how to make those objects appear to be “beautiful.” What is beautiful about artistic composition is not the effect, but the cause of that effect. This is the difference that the Divine Proportion makes.
