The hidden face of the vault: unveiling the expression of the avant-garde through the use of the sphere in Teposcolula's open chapel

DOI10.1007/S00004-012-0139-ZMaRDI QIDQ468485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Publication date 7 November 2014

Published in Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-012-0139-z

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean geometrygeometric analysisharmonic proportionsMexican architectureOpen Chapelsacred geometrysixteenth-century architecturespheressymbolismTeposcolulatrigonometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and architecture (00A67)

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