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'Fantastic Geometry'
Fantastic Geometry: Polyhedra and the Artistic
Imagination in the Renaissance, by David Wade; The
Squeeze Press; 2012
This, my most recent 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
theRenaissance. This brief flowering of geometric art, it seems to
me, was so extraordinarily prescient - positively modern-looking
in
fact - and has received so little recognition, that it deserves
to be better known.
Jamnitzer, who was a master artist-craftsman in his own right,
presented his geometric fantasies in response to the theories of
the
Classical philosopher-mathematicians in a volume called
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, published in Nuremberg, in 1568.
The
immediate popularity of this extraordinary book led to a number
of other artists/craftsmen following in his footsteps, and to
produce geometrically-inspired graphic works of their own.
Although never really amounting to a school, these productions
clearly
share Jamnitzers preoccupation with Platonic forms, and still
have a resonance today.
Fantastic Geometry provides a fairly comprehensive overview of
the work of this group (with many illustrations), together with
an account of the historical background and the sources of their
inspiration.
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Wenzel Jamnitzer Wenzel Jamnitzer Wenzel Jamnitzer
Lorenz Stoer Lorenz Stoer Lorenz Stoer
Johannes Lencker Johannes Lencker Johannes Lencker
Lorenzo Sirigatti Lorenzo Sirigatti Lorenzo Sirigatti
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