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Fantastic Geometry Polyhedra and the Artistic Imagination in the Renaissance

Paperback • 2012 • English

Fantastic Geometry Polyhedra and the Artistic Imagination in the Renaissance

By David Wade

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About the book

Deals with a little-known, short-lived, tradition of imaginative geometry that flourished in 16th century Germany, during the Northern Renaissance. The key figure in this movement was the goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer, whose graphic fantasies were an imaginative response to the newly rediscovered geometrical theories associated with such important figures as Pythagoras, Plato, Archimedes and Euclid - all part of the great revival of interest in Classical knowledge that characterised the Renaissance...Show more

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9781906069100

Publisher

Squeeze Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Fantastic Geometry Polyhedra and the Artistic Imagination in the Renaissance

Format

Paperback

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