The polyhedrists : art and geometry in the long sixteenth century / Noam Andrews.
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true New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction 516.0094 AND
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- Description
- 294 pages: illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Rhombicosidodecahedra -- Corpora regulata et irregulata -- Instruction in measurement -- Geometria and the Lehrbuch -- Lover of the art of perspective -- Cut apart in many ways -- The violence of whimsy -- Epilogue. Corpora irregulata et regulata.
- Summary
- "The Polyhedrists offers a critical history of the development of geometry in the early modern period, and explores the role of the platonic solids in late Renaissance art and culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Biography
- Noam Andrews, a historian and architect, is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium.
- Awards
- DAM Architectural Book Award, 2022
- Subject
- Polyhedra in art.
- Geometry -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
- Geometry -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
- Geometry in art.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Polyhedra.
- polyhedra.
- MATHEMATICS / General.
- Art, Renaissance
- Geometry
- Geometry in art
- Polyhedra
- Polyhedra in art
- Europe
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Genre/Form
- History
- Added Title
- Art and geometry in the long sixteenth century
- ISBN
- 9780262046640 (paperback)
- 0262046644 (paperback)