The invention of infinity : mathematics and art in the Renaissance / J.V. Field.

Entrée principale:

Field, Judith Veronica.

Titre et auteur:

The invention of infinity : mathematics and art in the Renaissance / J.V. Field.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Description:

xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ch. 1. Medieval mathematics and optics and the Renaissance style in art -- ch. 2. Building, drawing and 'artificial perspective' -- ch. 3. Through the wall: Masaccio's Trinity fresco (c.1426) -- ch. 4. Piero della Francesca's mathematics -- ch. 5. Piero della Francesca's perspective treatise -- ch. 6. Practitioners and partricians -- ch. 7. Professionals move in -- ch. 8. Beyond the ancients -- ch. 9. Fragmented perspectives.

Résumé:

From Giotto to Michelangelo and beyond, the period from about 1300 to 1650 saw an extraordinary flowering in the visual arts in Western Europe. The works produced were sometimes of astonishing quality and their history has been well documented and much discussed. The scientific endeavour of the time has received considerably less attention. The history of science is a newer discipline than history of art, and no topic is newer than the history of mathematics in the period that saw the beginning of the Renaissance in the arts. This book tells us about the everyday worlds of art and mathematics in a time when artists were merely 'craftsmen' and their practical mathematics was separate from the mathematics of scholars. The story brings together the histories of art and mathematics and shows how the craftsmen's discoveries changed learned mathematics, taking it beyond the admired achievements of the Ancient Greeks. Infinity at last acquired a precise mathematical meaning. The journey takes us through consideration of some of the world's most renowned paintings, and lively accounts of the mathematical techniques and discoveries of the time. We are in a world where art and the sciences have not yet pulled apart from one another, and it becomes clear that the mathematical nature of what we now call Science may well owe something to the tradition of what is now called Art.

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ISBN:

0198523947 (hbk.)
9780198523949 (hbk.)

Sujet:

Perspective.
Art Mathematics.
Art, Renaissance Italy.
Mathematics Italy History.
Art history
Mathematics history
Art de la Renaissance Italie.
Mathématiques Italie Histoire.
perspective (technique)
linear perspective (technique)
Art, Renaissance.
Mathematics.
Beeldende kunsten.
Wiskunde.
Perspectief.
Renaissance.
Art Mathématiques.
Perspective (art)
Art 15th and 16th centuries Italy.
Italy.

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Mathematics and art in the Renaissance

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 130556
Cote: ID N7430.5.F52; ID:97-B2178
Statut: Disponible

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