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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 32, Number 2, pages 205-208 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_205

THE “GOLDEN SECTION” IN THE MEDIEVAL BULGARIAN ARCHITECTURE

Stella Doncheva*

* National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Branch Shumen, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 9700 Shumen, Bulgaria
E-mail: donchevastela@yahoo.com

Abstract: The proportioning of the cult architecture in medieval Bulgaria is based on a strict arithmetic and geometric system. One of the most commonly used proportions is that of the “golden section”.

References:
Doncheva, S. (2008) The Cruciform Churches in the First Bulgarian Kingdom. Veliko Tarnovo: Faber, 372 pp. (in Bulgarian)

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