Mathematics and art
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship. The ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks knew about the golden ratio, regarded as an aesthetically pleasing ratio, and incorporated it into the design of monuments including the Great Pyramid, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. There are many examples of artists who have been inspired by mathematics and studied mathematics as a means of complementing their works. The Greek sculptor Polykleitos prescribed a series of mathematical proportions for carving the ideal male nude. Renaissance painters turned to mathematics and many, including Piero della Francesca, became accomplished mathematicians themselves.
See also
- Doryphoros by Polykleitos is the perfect example of the ideal male nude, as characterized in the Canon of Polykleitos
- Fractal art
- The golden ratio in art
- George W. Hart
- Mathematical beauty
- Mathematics and architecture
- Mathematics of musical scales
- Maurice Princet
