Geometrical bodies as exemplary forms in Renaissance space

Author

Kemp, Martin J.

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

World art : themes of unity in diversity

Author (monograph)

Lavin, Irving (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

World art : themes of unity in diversity. 1989, p. 237-242, 5 ill.

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Considers the phenomenon of the depiction of regular geometric solids in treatises of painters' perspective in the 16th through 18th cs. Argues that the reasons for the supreme status of the regular polyhedra lie in the intellectual nexus of philosophical mathematics within which painters' geometry came to be situated.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800
• Treatises
• 1500-1800
• Perspective
• Renaissance
• Painting
• Geometry
• Philosophy
• Mathematics

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800
• Traité
• 1500-1800
• Perspective
• Renaissance
• Peinture
• Géométrie
• Philosophie
• Mathématiques

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00448607

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