TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander-Skipnes,Ingrid
TI  - Visual culture and mathematics in the early modern period
T2  - Visual culture in early modernity
SN  - 9781138679382 (alk. paper)
AV  - N72.M3 V575 2017
U1  - 700.46/V82 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY, USA, London, UK : 
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Art
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mathematics in art
N1  - "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 Π in 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
N2  - "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."
ER  -