Art & geometry
Subtitle: a study in space intuitions
By: by William M. Ivins, Jr.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Art, Greek; Geometry -- History; Perspective; Space perception
Description: This highly stimulating study observes many of the sometimes startling interrelationships between art and mathematics throughout history. It explains the differences between ancient and Renaissance painting and sculpture as well as the development of perspective and advances in projective geometry achieved by Nicholas of Cusa, Kepler, and Desargues.
Notes: An unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published by Harvard University Press in 1946. *** Includes bibliographical references.

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