Art History & Mathematics

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Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting.  Trans. J. B. Spencer, Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale UP,

     1966.

 

---.   Ten Books on Architecture. Trans. James Leoni.  New York: Dover, 1986.

 

The Book of Kells.  Described by Sir Edward Sullivan, commentary by Johan Adolf

     Bruun.  New York: Crescent Books, 1986.

 

Brooks, Perry.  Piero della Francesca: The Arezzo Frescoes.  New York: Rizzoli

     International Publications, Inc. 1992.

 

Burton, David M. The History of Mathematics. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill Companies,

     Inc., 1999.

 

Clark, Kenneth. Introduction.  Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art.  By James Hall.

     2nd ed.  New York: Harper and Row, 1979.

 

---.  Piero della Francesco. 2nd ed.  London: Phaidon. 1969.

Cole, K. C. The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. An exploration of mathematics by a science writer whose purpose is to show that an interest in the quality of life is in no way diminished by quantitative argument. Chapters touch on innumeracy, measurement, social implications, and issues of truth and beauty.

 

Cowen, Painton. Rose Windows.  London: Thames & Hudson, 1979.

Devlin, Keith. Mathematics: The Science of Patterns.  New York: Scientific American

     Library, 1997.

 

Edgerton, Samuel Y., Jr. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective. 

     New York, Harper & Row, 1976.

 

---.  The Heritage of Giotto’s Geometry: Art & Science on the Eve of  Scientific     

      Revolution. Ithaca, New York: Cornell UP, 1991.

 

Ferguson, George.  Signs and Symbols in Christian Art.  Oxford: Oxford UP.

 

Garland, Trudi Hammel.  Fibonacci Fun: Fascinating Activities with Intriguing Numbers.

     Palo Alto, California: Dale Seymour Publications, 1997.

 

---.  Fascinating Fibonaccis: Mystery and Magic in Numbers. Palo Alto California: Dale

     Seymour Publications, 1987.

 

Hartt, Frederick.  History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture.

     4th ed., Rev. by D. Wilkins. New York: Abrams, 1994.

 

Kemp, Martin.  The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art From Brunelleschi to

      Seurat.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.

 

King, Ross. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture.

     New York: Walker Publication Company, Inc., 2000.

 

Kleiner, Fred S., Christin J. Mamiya, Richard G. Tansey. Gardner’s Art Through the

     Ages, 11th ed.  Texas: Harcourt College Publishers.

 

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Piero della Francesca, 1416?-1492.  New York: Abrams, 1992

 

Lumpkin, Beatrice.  Geometry: Activities from Many Cultures.  Portland, Maine: J.

     Weston Walch Publihser, 1997.

 

Macaulay, David. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin

     Company, 1973.

 

Milller, Malcolm.  Chartres Cathedral.  New York: Riverside Book Company, Inc., 1996

 

Murray, Peter.  Renaissance Architecture.  Rev. ed.  New York, Rizzoli International

     Publications, 1985.

 

Nordenfalk, Carl.  Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting; Book Illumination in the British

     Isles 600-800.  New York: George Braziller, 1977.

Pappas, Theoni.  The Magic of Mathematics:  Discovering the Spell of Mathematics.  San Carlos, California:  Wide World Publishing/Tetra, 1994.  

Schama, Simon.  The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in

     the Golden Age.  Berkely: University of California Press, 1988.

  Stewart, Ian.  Life's Other Secret:  The New mathematics of the Living World.  New York:  John Wiles & Sons, Inc., 1998.

Stewart, Ian. Nature’s Numbers; The Unreal Reality of Mathematics. New York: Basic

     Books, 1995.

Pappas, Theoni. Mathematical Scandals. San Carlos, California: Wide World

     Publishing/Tetra, 1997.

 

Pierce, James Smith. From Abacus to Zeus; A Handbook of Art History.  New Jersey,

     Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1995

 Stevens, Peter S. Patterns in Nature.

Vasari,  Giorgio.  The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,  

     1550-1568.  Trans. 3 vols. New York: Abrams, 1979 

 

Welch, Evelyn.  Art and Society in Italy, 1350-1500. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

 

Wittkower, Rudolf.  Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism.  4th ed.  London:

     Academy, 1988.

 

Wolfflin, Heinrich.  Principles of Art History: The Problem of Style in Later Art. Trans.

     M. D. Hottinger. 7th ed.  New York: Dover, 1950.

 

 

 

Related Materials

 

Videos

 

The Arch; Triumph of Mathematics & Architecture, Films for the Humanities

 

The Piero Trail: A Unique Perspective, Films for the Humanities

 

Piero della Francesca, Films for the Humanities

 

Donald in Mathmagicland, Disney Classics, Disney Home Video

 

Web sites:

 

Dartmouth's Geometry in Art & Architecture page http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/

 

Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in Nature

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html#spiral

 

Lessons in Mathematics and Art from Viewpoints Project

http://php.indiana.edu/~mathart/viewpoints/lessons/

 

Geometry and the Golden Section

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi2DGeomTrig.html#cons1

 

Greek Mathematics

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/wrightj/MA28/Greek/

 

K-12 TLC Guide to Michelangelo

http://tlc.ai.org/michelan.htm

 

Piero Della Francesca Foundation--Official Web Site

http://www.nots.it/piero/uk_index.htm

 

 


Journals

 

Studies in Art History. Piero della Francesca

 

 

 

Lumpkin, Beatrice.  Geometry:  Activities from Many Cultures.  Portland, Maine:  J. Weston Walch Publisher, 1997.

 

Garland, Trudi Hammel.  Fibonacci Fun:  Fascinating Activities with Intriguing Numbers.  Palo Alto, California:  Dale Seymour Publications, 1997.

 

---.Fascinating Fibonaccis:  Mystery and Magic in Numbers. Palo Alto, California:  Dale Seymour Publications, 1987.

 

Stewart, Ian.  Nature's Numbers:  The Unreal Reality of Mathematics.  New York:  BasicBooks, 1995.

 

Pappas, Theoni.  Mathematical Scandals. San Carlos, California:  Wide World Publishing/Tetra, 1997.

 

Devlin, Keith.  Mathematics: The Science of Patterns.  New York:  Scientific American Library, 1997.

 

Burton, David M.  The History of Mathematics.  4th ed.  Boston:  McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1999.