Last month, I went to a talk by mathematician Annalisa Crannell of Franklin and Marshall College called Math and Art: the good, the bad, and the pretty. She talked about how mathematical ideas of perspective show up in art and how it can help us create and appreciate art. One of my favorite parts of the talk was on this engraving, from Albrecht Dürer’s 1525 text A Painter’s Manual. Dürer is best known for his paintings and engravings, but he was a mathematician as well, and the manual is basically a practical geometry text for artists.
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