Irma A. Richter
Klappentext
This book presents a simple method that can be employed for every kind of design?a method that underlies some of the greatest paintings of the Renaissance and was used by the architect of the Parthenon and the craftsmen of ancient Egypt. With research that leads to Florence, Chartres, Athens, and up the Nile Valley, the author surveys the geometric scheme behind the works of art of the past. Seventy-two images help illustrate the philosophical and religious significance connected with the artistic proportioning of space.
Inhalt
I. Introduction
a. Architecture, Sculpture and Painting
b. Painting and Music
c. Proportion in Space
II. Pythagoras
III. Greek Art and Mathematics
IV. Mathematical Definitions
a. Geometric Proportion
b. Divine Proportion
c. Geometric Progression
d. Table of Arithmetic Values
e. Pentagon and Decagon
V. Rhythmic Division of Space in Art
VI. Timæus
a. Creation by Geometry
b. The Timæus in Christian Cosmology
c. Plato and the Renaissance
VII. Egypt
a. Tombstone of an Egyptian King
b. Pectoral of Senusert II
VIII. The Greek Vase
a. Vase Forms
b. Vase Painting
IX. A Greek Relief
X. The Parthenon
a. The Euthynteria
b. The Stylobate
c. The Doric Order
d. The Peristyle
e. The Capital
f. The Façade
g. The Metope
h. The Cella
i. The Naos
Appendix
XI. The Middle Ages
a. Chartres
b. Aureoles and Nimbi
c. Dante's Zones of Heaven
XII. Italian Painting
a. The Origin
b. The Quattrocento
c. The Cinquecento
d. Venice
XIII. Some Masterpieces of other Schools
Dürer, El Greco, Poussin, Fragonard, Hogarth, Cézanne
XIV. A Retrospect
Index