Add to ORKG'Circular Thinking' is a two-day online event devoted to the drawing compass (or ‘pair of compasses’), an essential tool of the premodern artist that came to represent divine Creation in Jewish and Christian (both Greek and Latin) exegetical traditions. Although now associated primarily with architecture, the compass was a transmedial instrument, integral to a range of artisanal operations. According to the artists’ handbooks of Theophilus and Cennini, the instrument was ready-to-hand, yet ev..
Title : The spiral in art. Aesthetic, ethical and political aspects. Abstract : In this work, we bui...
The whole of plane geometry is based on two figures,the straight line and the circle. Both these fig...
The circle as a basic form to be found in nature and in artificial objects has been the departure po...
The rendering thesis analyses the topic of the Creator of the world with compasses in his hands gene...
A mathematical instrument can sometimes be turned into a weapon, as will be argued here with the par...
Objects of Devotion: Religion and its Instruments in Early Modern Europe is an international confere...
In 2007, the priceless collection of historic scientific instruments stored in Jagiellonian Universi...
This article investigates an early modern paradigm shift that embraces various areas of the collecti...
This article examines the Amsterdam engraver and draftsman Crispijn de Passe’s art manual, ’t Light ...
International audienceGeometry instruments certainly exist since men are interested in mathematics. ...
AbstractIn 15th century Italy, a group of new imaginative devices appeared which we recognize as typ...
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2017: Monday,...
The Reliquary of the True Cross from the Louvre Museum serves as a good illustration of some key ide...
BERGER Susanna, The Art of Philosophy : Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the E...
International audienceThe perfect compass, used by al-Qûhî, al-Sijzî and his successors for the cont...
Title : The spiral in art. Aesthetic, ethical and political aspects. Abstract : In this work, we bui...
The whole of plane geometry is based on two figures,the straight line and the circle. Both these fig...
The circle as a basic form to be found in nature and in artificial objects has been the departure po...
The rendering thesis analyses the topic of the Creator of the world with compasses in his hands gene...
A mathematical instrument can sometimes be turned into a weapon, as will be argued here with the par...
Objects of Devotion: Religion and its Instruments in Early Modern Europe is an international confere...
In 2007, the priceless collection of historic scientific instruments stored in Jagiellonian Universi...
This article investigates an early modern paradigm shift that embraces various areas of the collecti...
This article examines the Amsterdam engraver and draftsman Crispijn de Passe’s art manual, ’t Light ...
International audienceGeometry instruments certainly exist since men are interested in mathematics. ...
AbstractIn 15th century Italy, a group of new imaginative devices appeared which we recognize as typ...
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2017: Monday,...
The Reliquary of the True Cross from the Louvre Museum serves as a good illustration of some key ide...
BERGER Susanna, The Art of Philosophy : Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the E...
International audienceThe perfect compass, used by al-Qûhî, al-Sijzî and his successors for the cont...
Title : The spiral in art. Aesthetic, ethical and political aspects. Abstract : In this work, we bui...
The whole of plane geometry is based on two figures,the straight line and the circle. Both these fig...
The circle as a basic form to be found in nature and in artificial objects has been the departure po...