In medieval churches motives are found, similar to what we call today “Sierpinski triangle”: a same composition of full and void areas, interweaved and repeated at smaller and smaller scale. The motive has seen its mathematically rigorous definition in 1915, and has been a “benchmark” for scientists thereafter. Mathematicians imagine and study what would remain upon carrying on indefinitely the procedure of inserting voids: a “powder of points” would be left, organized in a precise way around large voids. On the other hand, the geometrical compositions of the Marmorari Romani, loosely known as “Cosmati”, are often characterized by repetitions on different spatial scales, thus suggesting to the spectator an in-depth view [22, 30]). Actual ar...
The study of a substantial collection of intaglios (63) from a Roman sewer excavated in 1989 in the ...
It is often assumed that mosaicists working in different parts of the Roman Empire utilized specific...
Contains two volumes. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries di...
On the floors of churches in Rome, dating from the 11th century, a particular design can be recogniz...
AbstractIn 15th century Italy, a group of new imaginative devices appeared which we recognize as typ...
Twisted columns are ubiquitous in cult places, but classical treatises discuss only some specific ge...
The diamond vaults of Central Europe are among the most original yet little-known creations of medie...
[EN] The sexpartite vault was the great protagonist of the beginnings of Gothic architecture in Euro...
This paper seeks to characterise through elemental analysis some unusual gold glass tesserae said to...
4Some authors have downplayed the importance of complex vaulted systems in ashlar in Roman architect...
An explanation is proposed for the Origin of a device used to create some of the first convincing in...
The Galla Placidia Chapel in Ravenna, or globally known as the "Mausoleum" of Galla Placidia, is ren...
Art often contains symmetrical patterns that combine mathematics and artistic design in a way that i...
The church of Germigny-des-Prés is one of the oldest in France. It holds the only early medieval mos...
The use of tracings - drawings engraved on floors or walls showing an architectural detail to scale ...
The study of a substantial collection of intaglios (63) from a Roman sewer excavated in 1989 in the ...
It is often assumed that mosaicists working in different parts of the Roman Empire utilized specific...
Contains two volumes. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries di...
On the floors of churches in Rome, dating from the 11th century, a particular design can be recogniz...
AbstractIn 15th century Italy, a group of new imaginative devices appeared which we recognize as typ...
Twisted columns are ubiquitous in cult places, but classical treatises discuss only some specific ge...
The diamond vaults of Central Europe are among the most original yet little-known creations of medie...
[EN] The sexpartite vault was the great protagonist of the beginnings of Gothic architecture in Euro...
This paper seeks to characterise through elemental analysis some unusual gold glass tesserae said to...
4Some authors have downplayed the importance of complex vaulted systems in ashlar in Roman architect...
An explanation is proposed for the Origin of a device used to create some of the first convincing in...
The Galla Placidia Chapel in Ravenna, or globally known as the "Mausoleum" of Galla Placidia, is ren...
Art often contains symmetrical patterns that combine mathematics and artistic design in a way that i...
The church of Germigny-des-Prés is one of the oldest in France. It holds the only early medieval mos...
The use of tracings - drawings engraved on floors or walls showing an architectural detail to scale ...
The study of a substantial collection of intaglios (63) from a Roman sewer excavated in 1989 in the ...
It is often assumed that mosaicists working in different parts of the Roman Empire utilized specific...
Contains two volumes. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries di...