Playing with Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci and the Divine Proportion: discover the artistic and mathematical genius through timeless drawings.
Between 1496 and 1498, Leonardo da Vinci created 60 extraordinary drawings, defined by the friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli as ‘supreme and most graceful figures of all the Platonic and mathematical regular and dependent bodies, which in prospective drawing it is not possible in the world to do better’. These masterpieces were created to conceptually illustrate the theories set forth in the famous treatise “De Divina Proportione”, published in 1509.
This book is built according to the motto “Federighi Editori” which carries forward the desire to “learn in a fun way”.
Thanks to his ‘glorious’ and ‘ineffable left hand’, as Pacioli praised him, Leonardo made visible and understandable to all not only the five regular polyhedra, but also a vast range of derived and related solids, revolutionizing the geometric and perspective understanding of the time.
This book celebrates the genius of Leonardo and the triumph of the Divine Proportion, a unique synthesis of art, mathematics and Renaissance philosophy. Ideal for culture enthusiasts, science scholars and admirers of Leonardo’s great artistic and scientific legacy.
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