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Table of Contents
Intro
Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I Homage to Mimmo Paladino
8 Works by Mimmo Paladino
Mimmo Paladino
Il Principio Della Prospettiva
References
Part II Dreaming in Venice
Dreaming Venice
References
The Napoleonic Fresco in Palazzo Loredan, Thinkingof the Bicentennial
MOSE: The Defence System to Safeguard Venice and Its Lagoon
1 Introduction
2 The Venice Lagoon
3 A Wounded Lagoon
4 A Long Story
5 Defence from Floods: Mobile Barriers at the Lagoon Inlets
6 How Do the Barriers Work
7 Recent Times
8 Since 2006 a Comparison with Other Countries Involved in Coastal Defence
Part III Art and Mathematics
The Rise of Abstractionism: Art and Mathematics
1 ``Breaking the Ties with the Concrete and Tangible''
2 Italian Mathematicians Contribute to Construct a European Culture
2.1 Felice Casorati
2.2 Eugenio Beltrami
3 From Edgard Degas to Shigefumi Mori
References
Aestheticizing an Einsteinian World: The Idea of Space-Time in Russian Literary Theory and in Art Criticism
1 The Chronotope in Literary Theory and Beyond: Bakhtin
2 The Icon as a Chronotope: Florensky
3 Conclusion
References
Cagli, Olson, Coxeter
References
A Fault in the Order: Thoughts on Frayed Strings
1 Poems for Collapse from COVID
2 A Thread for Two
The Multivalent Fourth Dimension and the Impact of Claude Bragdon's A Primer of Higher Space on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
References
"Where Natural Law Holds No Sway": Geometrical Optics and Divine Light in Dante, Michelangelo, and Raphael
1 Dante and the Limits of Optics
2 Michelangelo and Raphael: Painted Light
References
On the Classification and Recording of Colours According to the Methods of the Painter Adolfo Ferraris: A Brief Note
References
Colored Figurative Tilings in Pre-Incan Textiles
1 Introduction and Preliminaries
2 Pattern A
3 Pattern B
4 Pattern C
5 Pattern D
6 Patterns a, b, c, and d Woven in Other Techniques
6.1 Pattern a
6.2 Pattern b
6.3 Pattern c
6.4 Pattern d
7 Conclusion
References
The Artistic (and Practical) Utility of Hyperspace
1 Hypercubes Tessellated
2 Planar Rotations
3 Slices Vs. Projections
4 Fat Topology
5 Quasicrystals
6 Something from Nothing
7 Shape Shifting in the 1970s
Appendix 1
Bibliography
From Vision to Perception: Chardin's Eighteenth Century Cultural and Scientific Approach to Painting (and Soap Bubbles)
1 Conclusion: From the Objective Sharp Vision to a Human Perceptive Experience
References
Part IV Architecture and Mathematics
Andrea Palladio and Zaha Hadid
1 Palladio, Villa Malcontenta
2 Venezia, Mostra Internazionale Di Architettura, 2008
3 Conclusions
Addendum
References
Sergio Musmeci and the Calculation of the Form
1 The First Experiences
Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I Homage to Mimmo Paladino
8 Works by Mimmo Paladino
Mimmo Paladino
Il Principio Della Prospettiva
References
Part II Dreaming in Venice
Dreaming Venice
References
The Napoleonic Fresco in Palazzo Loredan, Thinkingof the Bicentennial
MOSE: The Defence System to Safeguard Venice and Its Lagoon
1 Introduction
2 The Venice Lagoon
3 A Wounded Lagoon
4 A Long Story
5 Defence from Floods: Mobile Barriers at the Lagoon Inlets
6 How Do the Barriers Work
7 Recent Times
8 Since 2006 a Comparison with Other Countries Involved in Coastal Defence
Part III Art and Mathematics
The Rise of Abstractionism: Art and Mathematics
1 ``Breaking the Ties with the Concrete and Tangible''
2 Italian Mathematicians Contribute to Construct a European Culture
2.1 Felice Casorati
2.2 Eugenio Beltrami
3 From Edgard Degas to Shigefumi Mori
References
Aestheticizing an Einsteinian World: The Idea of Space-Time in Russian Literary Theory and in Art Criticism
1 The Chronotope in Literary Theory and Beyond: Bakhtin
2 The Icon as a Chronotope: Florensky
3 Conclusion
References
Cagli, Olson, Coxeter
References
A Fault in the Order: Thoughts on Frayed Strings
1 Poems for Collapse from COVID
2 A Thread for Two
The Multivalent Fourth Dimension and the Impact of Claude Bragdon's A Primer of Higher Space on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
References
"Where Natural Law Holds No Sway": Geometrical Optics and Divine Light in Dante, Michelangelo, and Raphael
1 Dante and the Limits of Optics
2 Michelangelo and Raphael: Painted Light
References
On the Classification and Recording of Colours According to the Methods of the Painter Adolfo Ferraris: A Brief Note
References
Colored Figurative Tilings in Pre-Incan Textiles
1 Introduction and Preliminaries
2 Pattern A
3 Pattern B
4 Pattern C
5 Pattern D
6 Patterns a, b, c, and d Woven in Other Techniques
6.1 Pattern a
6.2 Pattern b
6.3 Pattern c
6.4 Pattern d
7 Conclusion
References
The Artistic (and Practical) Utility of Hyperspace
1 Hypercubes Tessellated
2 Planar Rotations
3 Slices Vs. Projections
4 Fat Topology
5 Quasicrystals
6 Something from Nothing
7 Shape Shifting in the 1970s
Appendix 1
Bibliography
From Vision to Perception: Chardin's Eighteenth Century Cultural and Scientific Approach to Painting (and Soap Bubbles)
1 Conclusion: From the Objective Sharp Vision to a Human Perceptive Experience
References
Part IV Architecture and Mathematics
Andrea Palladio and Zaha Hadid
1 Palladio, Villa Malcontenta
2 Venezia, Mostra Internazionale Di Architettura, 2008
3 Conclusions
Addendum
References
Sergio Musmeci and the Calculation of the Form
1 The First Experiences