From the very beginning, the artistic production of Piero della Francesca is characterised by a rigorous perspective structure, a perfection of geometric volumes and a representation of figures immersed in an almost abstract atmosphere of diffuse light. In addition to painting, Piero also wrote mathematical treatises on algebra, geometry and perspective: respectively, Trattato d’abaco, De prospectiva pingendi and De quinque corporibus regularibus. On the merits of this scientific work, Piero is considered a Renaissance mathematician: he formalized the rules of perspective, which had been until then the exclusive property of artistic technique. After Piero, the French mathematician Girard Desargues resumed these studies and stated the rules of projective geometry.
Piero della Francesca, mathematician of the Renaissance
DE TULLIO, JACOPO GIUSEPPE
2015
Abstract
From the very beginning, the artistic production of Piero della Francesca is characterised by a rigorous perspective structure, a perfection of geometric volumes and a representation of figures immersed in an almost abstract atmosphere of diffuse light. In addition to painting, Piero also wrote mathematical treatises on algebra, geometry and perspective: respectively, Trattato d’abaco, De prospectiva pingendi and De quinque corporibus regularibus. On the merits of this scientific work, Piero is considered a Renaissance mathematician: he formalized the rules of perspective, which had been until then the exclusive property of artistic technique. After Piero, the French mathematician Girard Desargues resumed these studies and stated the rules of projective geometry.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.