Nicolas Poussin and The Golden Mean

A Proof At Last !

Hi all.

This page is dedicated to Nicolas Poussin whose brilliance is still with us today. On this and the following pages I am going to take you on a voyage of discovery from the sands of Egypt to the halls of The Louvre. From Rennes le Chateau to Paris France. It is a story which has been hidden for a very long time and I have been blessed, with the help of Gary Osborn of unleashing it's secrets. It is proof positive, uncontestable and brilliant of how Nicolas Poussin not only used the golden mean and Phi but flaunted it in our faces and how all the art critcs and art "lovers" of the past overlooked these obvious signs is a mystery to me. However I guess sometimes it pays to think outside of the box, or the pyramid in my case. So sit back, relax, get your glassess if needed and join me as I take you on a voyage to uncover The Secret Phi Code of Nicolas Poussin.

The story begins about 15 years ago when my mother brought home a book by Henry Lincoln entitled The Holy Place. Without going into this book too much most people are aware it involved a pentagram and a mystery at Rennes le Chateau. Suffice it to say I was hooked and have been chasing the msytery ever since. Next came a book entitled Tomb of God where three paintings were listed as having been copied by a priest named Sauniere and even though the mystery [to some] has turned out to be false or as some would believe a hoax I always believed that we were led to these paintings for a reason.

The first and most famous of these paintings is The Shepherds of Arcadia or Et in Arcadia Ego painted by Nicolas Poussin in the year 1637-39 and presently residing at The Louvre in Paris. Please see image below taken form Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces.

Many attempts have been made to prove that this painting incorporated The Golden Mean either secretly or in any fashion and the best art minds of the past several centuries have denied Phi exists. Well THEY WERE WRONG !!! Phi is indeed incorporated into this image in a very interesting and beautiful manner and once you see the images you will say why didn't I see that.

The recent story really begins when I started trying to fit The Golden Rectangle into and onto The Giza Plateau. It was tantalizingly close but wasn't exact and it was a bit too difficult to prove even if it appeared close on the map and it was then that Gary Osborn gave me a new direction and this is what I have come up with. I wondered to myself what would happen if I incorporated the Golden Rectangle onto this painting. What would it reveal ? Well prepare to be astounded.

Here is the first image that I produced drawing a horizontal and vertical line through the eye of "The Golden Shepherdess" [ how appropriate ! ]

If you look closely you will see that the vertical line drawn through the eye hits the back of the heel of The Red Shepherd and the toe of The Golden Shepherdess making the vertical line very easy to draw indeed. For the horizontal one, one need only line up the tops of the two staves and the mountain top to get this line. At this point a had a feeling something was developing. Just looking at the picture made me think of something so I decided to see if I was right. Here is the result..

As you can see it appears to hit dead on but I wanted more proof and boy did I get it. I also had another hunch and so I stepped outside of the pyramid once again and produced this image. Before posting the next image it is important to explain that the painting in The :Louvre had several inches folded under and thus the image that we see above IS NOT the entire image. Knowing this it made my next overlay make a lot more sense. Before I post image two I also decided to extend a line from where it appears that the background at the left is broken by what appears to be a line. Here is a close-up of the area.

Here is the image after I have extended it.

Let's see what we can produce with these three lines ....

So now we have The Golden Rectangle again and it extends up to the top of the original painting. So here we have the eye, the all seeing eye I would hazard a guess, of The Golden Shepherdess dividing the width into The Golden Mean as well as the height. There are more images on the way which makes the chance of this being in error totally impossible but I shall leave it here for now. Pretty neat eh ? You got to love Poussin and boy or boy what are they going to say at Columbia University in New York ? :o) This is a university totally devoted to Poussin where they even offer courses on his work. But they never found Phi ... I love it ! By the way there are more and different paintings yet to come. Hang on to your hats it gonna be quite a ride !

As a further proof of this I went in search of another image to suprimpose on this painting to see if I could prove it more accurately. Here is what I found.

As you can seeit fits perfectly on the horizontal but what of the vertical ? Well have a look.

I am sure you will agree that this would seem to establish proof of Phi in Et in Arcadia Ego

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Part II: The Second Shepherd Painting