The Golden Ratio and Michelangelo´s Influence in Gaspar Becerra`s Flayed Man
Journal: Journal of Morphological Sciences
Year: 2021

This manuscript presents an unprecedented hypothesis that the Flayed Man [Taoula. I. del Lib. II] by Gaspar Becerra (1520-1570), published in the classic study on the Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (1556) by Juan Valverde de Amusco (ca.1525-1587), may have been elaborated according to a mathematical relation known since antiquity as the Golden Ratio (GR) (1.6), which is identified in the organization of numerous biological structures, in both the animal and plant kingdoms. Material