Deletion of List of mathematical artists

Comment: Only a small proportion of artists actually explore mathematics in their work - M. C. Escher and Leonardo da Vinci being the canonical examples. The criterion must be that the art itself is agreed in |Reliable, Independent Sources to be exploring an aspect of mathematics. Merely making use of existing cultural norms of geometric perspective is on this criterion not sufficient for an artist to be considered mathematical. In the case of Piero della Francesca, his work is agreed by critics (see e.g. J. V. Field, ''http://www.ams.org/notices/200703/rev-emmer.pdf Piero della Francesca. A Mathematician's Art'', Yale University Press, 2005) to be exploring mathematical perspective because in his era (the 15th century) that was at the cutting edge of discovery, and his use of it was highly distinctive. It is very likely that some of the uncited entries on the list will fail this criterion and they should at once be removed. The list itself is sound in concept with a robustly defensible list inclusion criterion, and once tidied up will be a well-formed, interesting, encyclopaedic list article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)