.
The Renaissance artists e.g. Pierro della Francesca ( 1 ,
2 ) ,Lorenz Stör (1, , 3 )Ucello, Hans Hayden ,,Lorenz Zicken, Jean Cousin (id.) Wenzeln Jamnitzer, Luca Pacioli ,
Leonardo da Vinci used the Greek geometry in their paintings and
sculptures. Battista Alberti (1404-1472) described in Della Pittura for the first time the mathematical
construction of the perspective with a “centric point”. The first
three-diemensional figures to appear were the regular polyhedra , often made in
the form of intarsia (wood inlay) by intarsiatori . Giovanni da Verona is one of the most famous.
Dürer
designed his own polyhedron in his etching Melancholia.( http://www.artglobe.se/Ghist/ghist_06.htm
A lead copy of this polyhedron was exhibited by the
In modern art polyhedra
occur in pictures and sculptures, e.g. in Dali´s The Sacrament of The Last
Supper (takes place in a dodecahedron), (alt), http://ellensplace.net/dali.html Dodecahedra also occur in Dali´s Searching
for the Fourth Dimension ( 1979),
in Rock and Infuriated Horse Sleeping
under the See (1947) , in Pentagonale Sardana (1979) and in some illustrations in Esseys of
Michel de Montaigne.
Several Russian
artists, Malevitch and Rodtjenko were familiar with polyhedron and polygon
structures (c. 1920 -1930).
M. C. Escher often used
polyhedra in his etchings, e.g. the dodecahedron and the small stellated dodecahedron.
Stars,
wood engraving 1948, stellated polyhedron.
.
Goethe brought an ancient sculpture from
Islamic art is often geometric.
A Belgian note with platonic solids
The Golden triangle in a pentagon.
Even today several artists construct polygons and platonic bodies (alt))as well as
Archimedean polyhedra ,e.g.
Collection
of Dodecahedra
K
G Nilson : Red
Score
Pål
Svensson Platonic
solids
Per Svensson: Platonic solids and Truncated icosahedron (id..)
Lennart Mörk: Platonic solids
Rolf Wilhelmson:
Dodecahedron
Legotype of Bauhaus
In architecture, particularly in the