Regarding a picture analysis of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we could say that it is a picture of remarkable Beauty. According to artist Alberti, in a painting we must observe in general terms: the Color, the Line and the Composition. About the Composition, we define it as the harmonic union of the parts to make a whole, making an unity in the variety of the objects. One of the most beautiful manners to obtain it, is the "Divine Proportion". It is formed by an square to which a rectangle is added, in order to make an space in which the minor side belongs to the bigger in relation of 1 to 1.6181 denominated "divine" or "Golden" number or ( ). This divine proportion appears in all Art expressions. This method has been utilized and handed down from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece until now. It had been studied by Pitagoras, Euclides and Vitrubio. In the Renaissance Period, it was investigated by Uccello, De la Francesca, Paccioli and Alberti. Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and Durero utilize it frequently and also such modern painters as Mondrian. The method has been used in the Sculpture and in the Architecture since Ictinus in the Parthenon until Le Corbusier. It is found also in the proportions of the different parts of the human body. In creation, it is the model of growing of the vegetables, gems, fossils and may be identified in the form of the Galaxies and in association with atoms from some molecules. For all such things, it is an important technical element that gives unit, equilibrium, balance, elegance in all Fundamental and Universal Arts.
Regarding the central seam of Juan Diego's tilma, the "Divine Proportion" is identified clearly in our Lady of Guadalupe's image. This proportion gives an special beauty and also when it coincides in its development with practically all the parts, including some details had been added to the original. It is also an important argument to show the aesthetic value of the image to which it is not possible to add or to take away any element if its original place without deterioring its beauty.
It makes also quite unprobable, from the aesthetic point of view, that we can find so many signals of different disciplines; it is impossible to consider that it is merely a fruit of coincidence and chance.
Below are three further images of the Proportions discerned:
Final Proof of the work of the Hand of God....
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