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what did the Greeks use to establish the ideal proportions in the human body, architecture, and other forms of art

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Policleto's canon (450 BC).It is a lost treatise on the proportions of human anatomy.It is considered the first treatise that theorises the themes of beauty and harmony and has also inspired research on the architectural form.
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