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List of mathematical artists

Broken lances lying along perspective lines[1] in Paolo Uccello's The Battle of San Romano, 1438
Small stellated dodecahedron, from De divina proportione by Luca Pacioli, woodcut by Leonardo da Vinci. Venice, 1509
Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia, with a truncated triangular trapezohedron and a magic square
Rencontre dans la porte tournante by Man Ray, 1922, with helix
Four-dimensional geometry in Painting 2006-7 by Tony Robbin
Quintrino by Bathsheba Grossman, 2007, a sculpture with dodecahedral symmetry
Heart by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, 2014, using a family of trigonometric equations[2]
"Angel V" of Mikołaj Jakub Kosmalski - A cubic curve formed on a finite set of points generated by a parametric formula using trigonometric functions and operations on complex numbers

This is a list of artists who actively explored mathematics in their artworks.[3] Art forms practised by these artists include painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles and origami.

Some artists such as Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli went so far as to write books on mathematics in art. Della Francesca wrote books on solid geometry and the emerging field of perspective, including De Prospectiva Pingendi (On Perspective for Painting), Trattato d’Abaco (Abacus Treatise), and De corporibus regularibus (Regular Solids),[4][5][6] while Pacioli wrote De divina proportione (On Divine Proportion), with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci, at the end of the fifteenth century.[7]

Merely making accepted use of some aspect of mathematics such as perspective does not qualify an artist for admission to this list.

The term "fine art" is used conventionally to cover the output of artists who produce a combination of paintings, drawings and sculptures.

  1. ^ Benford, Susan. "Famous Paintings: The Battle of San Romano". Masterpiece Cards. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Mathematical Imagery: Mathematical Concepts Illustrated by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Feature Column AMS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Piero della Francesca, De Prospectiva Pingendi, ed. G. Nicco Fasola, 2 vols., Florence (1942).
  5. ^ Piero della Francesca, Trattato d'Abaco, ed. G. Arrighi, Pisa (1970).
  6. ^ Piero della Francesca, L'opera "De corporibus regularibus" di Pietro Franceschi detto della Francesca usurpata da Fra Luca Pacioli, ed. G. Mancini, Rome, (1916).
  7. ^ Swetz, Frank J.; Katz, Victor J. "Mathematical Treasures - De Divina Proportione, by Luca Pacioli". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 7 June 2015.

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