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Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period (Paperback)
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Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period (Paperback)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence
between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics
and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study
of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the
mysteries of the visible world. This volume makes its contribution
by offering new interdisciplinary approaches that not only
investigate perspective but also examine how mathematics enriched
aesthetic theory and the human mind. The contributors explore the
portrayal of mathematical activity and mathematicians as well as
their ideas and instruments, how artists displayed their
mathematical skills and the choices visual artists made between
geometry and arithmetic, as well as Euclid's impact on drawing,
artistic practice and theory. These chapters cover a broad
geographical area that includes Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the
Netherlands, France and England. The artists, philosophers and
mathematicians whose work is discussed include Leon Battista
Alberti, Nicholas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, Francesco di Giorgio,
Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, as well as
Michelangelo, Galileo, Piero della Francesca, Girard Desargues,
William Hogarth, Albrecht Durer, Luca Pacioli and Raphael.
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