Da Vinci created the illustrations for the book “De Divina Proportione” (The Divine Proportion) by Luca Pacioli.
It was written in about 1497 and first published in 1509. Pacioli was a
contemporary of Da Vinci’s, and the book contains dozens of beautiful
illustrations of three-dimensional geometric solids and templates for
script letters in calligraphy. The original manuscript can be viewed below.
In the book, Pacioli writes of mathematical and artistic proportion, especially the mathematics of the golden ratio and its application in art and architecture. Some geometric solids, such as dodecahedrons and icosahedrons, have inherent golden ratios in their dimensions and spatial positions of their intersecting lines. Other examples of golden ratios in the illustrations include the one architectural illustration in the book and the one script letter (G) that is not divided horizontally at its midpoint.
Da Vinci’s use of the Divine proportion is evident in some of his own works, even before his collaboration with Pacioli.
(from https://www.goldennumber.net/leonardo-da-vinci-golden-ratio-art/)
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