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# The golden ratio in the seventeenth-century Family Portrait by the Dutch painter Hercules Sanders
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/smotrite-chto-obnaruzhil-na-semeinom-portrete-xvii-v-raboty-gollandtsa-gerkulesa-sandersa/
- Published: 2017-07-05T12:22:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:39.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Art, Observations, Humour

Look what I have discovered in a seventeenth-century Family Portrait by the Dutchman Hercules Sanders. The golden section! The unattractiveness of the features diminishes from the infant onwards, reaching its minimum in the figure of the head of the family