Perspective versus Stereotomy: From quattrocento polyhedral rings to sixteenth-century Spanish torus vaults

DOI10.1007/S00004-010-0018-4MaRDI QIDQ969592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José Calvo-López, Miguel Ángel Alonso-Rodríguez

Publication date 7 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-010-0018-4

zbMATH Keywords

torussurfaces of revolutionperspectivedescriptive geometryPaolo UccelloDaniel BarbaroJacopo Torni l'IndacoLuis MachucaPalace of Charles V in GranadaPedro MachucaPiero della FrancescaJunterón Chapel in the Cathedral of Murcia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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