Perspectiva Corporum Regularium
Engraver Jost Amman Swiss
after Wenzel Jamnitzer German
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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