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Visual culture and mathematics in the early modern period / edited by Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes.

Contributor(s): Series: Visual culture in early modernityNew York, NY, USA ; London, UK : Routledge, ©2017Description: ix, 204 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text.
ISBN:
  • 9781138679382 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 700.46/V82
LOC classification:
  • N72.M3 V575 2017
Other classification:
  • CAS
Contents:
The Mathematical Mind and the Search for Beauty -- Artists as Mathematicians -- Euclid and Artistic Accomplishment. 1. IntroductionIngrid Alexander-SkipnesPart I: The Mathematical Mind and the Search for Beauty2. Renaissance Aesthetics and MathematicsJohn Hendrix3. Design Method and Mathematics in Francesco di Giorgio's TrattatiAngeliki Pollali4. Mathematical and Proportion Theories in the Work of Leonardo da Vinci and Contemporary Artist/Engineers at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Matthew LandrusPart II: Artists as Mathematicians5. Durer's Underweysung der Messung and the Geometric Construction of AlphabetsRangsook Yoon6. Circling the Square: The Meaningful Use of Φ and Πin the Paintings of Piero della FrancescaPerry BrooksPart III: Euclid and Artistic Accomplishment7. The Point and Its Line: An Early Modern History of MovementCaroline O. Fowler8. Between the Golden Ratio and a Semiperfect Solid: Fra Luca Pacioli and the Portrayal of Mathematical HumanismRenzo Baldasso and John Logan9. Mathematical Imagination in Raphael's School of AthensIngrid Alexander-Skipnes
Summary: "This volume consists of eight chapters that explore ways in which visual culture and mathematics interacted in the period from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries in Europe."
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"An Ashgate book"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.

The Mathematical Mind and the Search for Beauty -- Artists as Mathematicians -- Euclid and Artistic Accomplishment. 1. IntroductionIngrid Alexander-SkipnesPart I: The Mathematical Mind and the Search for Beauty2. Renaissance Aesthetics and MathematicsJohn Hendrix3. Design Method and Mathematics in Francesco di Giorgio's TrattatiAngeliki Pollali4. Mathematical and Proportion Theories in the Work of Leonardo da Vinci and Contemporary Artist/Engineers at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Matthew LandrusPart II: Artists as Mathematicians5. Durer's Underweysung der Messung and the Geometric Construction of AlphabetsRangsook Yoon6. Circling the Square: The Meaningful Use of Φ and Πin the Paintings of Piero della FrancescaPerry BrooksPart III: Euclid and Artistic Accomplishment7. The Point and Its Line: An Early Modern History of MovementCaroline O. Fowler8. Between the Golden Ratio and a Semiperfect Solid: Fra Luca Pacioli and the Portrayal of Mathematical HumanismRenzo Baldasso and John Logan9. Mathematical Imagination in Raphael's School of AthensIngrid Alexander-Skipnes

"This volume consists of eight chapters that explore ways in which visual culture and mathematics interacted in the period from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries in Europe."

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