Piero della Francesca : a mathematician's art / J.V. Field.
Pubblicazione:
New Haven : Yale university press, c2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 420 p. : ill., ritr. ; 27 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. List of abbreviations. Introduction. 1. The background 2. Perspective 3. Piero's early life and continuing ties 4. A sense of space 5. The forece of lines: On perspective for painting 6. Optics and illusions 7. But is it art? 8. From Piero della Francesca to Galileo Galilei. Appendix 1: The method of double false position. Appendix 2: Piero della Francesca's methods of finding the height of a triangle. Appendix 3: The distance point method of perspective construction. Appendix 4: Making a square into an octagon. Appendix 5: Constructing an octagon from a square and drawing the patterned pavement in Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ. Appendix 6: Some examples of three-dimensional geometry from Piero della Francesca's Trattato d'abaco and Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus. Appendix 8: Some theorems and problems in Piero della Francesca's construction of the perspective image of a square-tiled pavement. Appendix 9: The ground plan and lighting of the Montefeltro alterpiece. Bibliography. Photograph credits. General index. Index of Piero della Francesca's works
