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Perspectiva Corporum Regularium

Engraver Jost Amman Swiss
after Wenzel Jamnitzer German
1568
Not on view
Perspective of the Regular Bodies is a lavish compendium of perspectival geometry expressly intended to show off the graphic skills of Jamnitzer, perhaps the most renowned sixteenth-century goldsmith. Based on the five Platonic solids, or "regular bodies"—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron—the five main sections of the book each consist of twenty-four polyhedral variants. The forms progress from the simplest on the top row of each page to the most augmented and complex at the bottom.

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Object Information
  • Title: Perspectiva Corporum Regularium
  • Engraver: Jost Amman (Swiss, Zurich before 1539–1591 Nuremberg)
  • Artist: after Wenzel Jamnitzer (German, Vienna 1507/8–1585 Nuremberg)
  • Published in: Nuremberg
  • Date: 1568
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Overall: 13 3/4 x 10 1/16 x 3/8in. (35 x 25.5 x 1cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.45.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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