Gemstones’ drawing/design - Geometry. Models. Representations
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By: Edited by Atena Editora
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Publisher: Atena Editora
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Brasil
Language: por
Format: PDF
Copyright date: 2024
Description: While reading this book, I was reminded of Leon Battista Alberti’s winged human eye. An eye that, as is well known, moves quickly, but also freely, between past, present, and future – specifically between analog and digital – precisely because it can recognize the reality of natural facts by overcoming the unreality of artificial fiction. And that, with its absolute disenchantment, is a prelude to Leonardo da Vinci’s eye when, in a famous passage of the Codex Arundel 263 (fol. 155 recto), he declares his «bramosa voglia»  to «vedere la gran copia delle varie e strane forme fatte dalla artifiziosa natura»  which pushes it to explore the depth of a «oscura spilonca»  to «vedere se là entro fusse qualche miracolosa cosa.»  confessing that mix of «paura e desiderio»  in the face of the unknown that circularly re-proposes the rhetorical question – «Quid Tum» – with whom Alberti seals his winged human eye and which also transpires from the book co-authored by Nicola Pisacane, Pasquale Argenziano and Alessandra Avella, which locks Drawing, Geometry and Design in a Borromean knot capable of revealing the humanistic face of the Mineralogical Sciences, prefiguring new ideational potential in the field of Jewellery Design.
But let's go in order.
The book is dedicated to the Drawing/Design of precious stones and has its roots in the educational field, as the authors state. It is divided into three chapters, accompanied by illustrations so eloquent as to return a sort of autonomous compendium.
In the first chapter – Crystals’ geometry in mineral and faceted gemstones – Nicola Pisacane goes far beyond the usual citation of the works of the great fifteenth-century treatises (from Piero della Francesca’s De quinque corporibus regularibus to Luca Pacioli’s Divina