GOLDEN RATIO INSCRIBED CODE OF BEAUTY IN CROATIAN TRADITION OF GLAGOLITIC CULTURE

The Glagolitic culture is instrumental in defining the Croatian cultural heritage, whose identity is rooted in this very culture. In the modern age of intensified and accelerating globalisation, the Glagolitic culture has become the pivotal point of preserving this centuries-old heritage. This rich intellectual and spiritual heritage can be explored by using varied methodologies and by applying a range of scientific disciplines. This paper will focus on the gold-inscribed code of the Glagolitic culture, which is present in its different expressive means, from artistic features of graphemes, historiographic-literary works, to construction of sacral buildings. When considering the golden inscription, we will follow the definition (Pejakovic 2000, 17) which states that the golden inscription is "the geometric proportion or scale that divides a given length in such a way that any smaller segment is related to the larger one as this larger segment is related to the whole length". The introductory assumption that, beauty. was a crucial component of the Glagolitic culture is confirmed in the conclusion, i.e. beauty was part of expressiveness in which "canonical principles of proportion, executed in a certain format, are meticulously observed" (Pejakovic 2000, 125). This will confirm the manifestness of golden inscription in Croatian Middle Ages, the age before the advent of Renaissance and its renewed interest in antique tendencies of creation according to the golden code.