Divina proportione : opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia: prospettiua pictura sculptura: architectura: musica: e altre mathematice: suavissima: sotile: e admirabile doctrina consequira: e delecterassi: co[n] varie questione de secretissima scientia

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517, Capella, Antonio, Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 · 1509 · [Venetiis] : A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat · 233 pictures

Luca Pacioli's treatise on the golden ratio and geometric proportion, printed by Paganinus in Venice in 1509 for students of mathematics, perspective, painting, sculpture, music and architecture, with polyhedra drawings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The woodcuts are lettered line diagrams \u2014 circles with inscribed polygons, constructed alphabets, and skeletal and solid polyhedra \u2014 usable as geometric ornament, grid armatures and letterform models.

Proportion (Art) · Lettering

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