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The Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Nick Mackinnon
Nick Mackinnon*
Affiliation:
Winchester College, Winchester SO23 9NA
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There have been many attempts to understand the portrait of the mathematician Luca Pacioli which now hangs in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (Plate 1), and which will be familiar to users of the Pacioli 2000 accountancy software. However none of these attempts by art historians engages with the mathematics of the picture, which the artist has gone to such trouble to detail. While to a connoisseur the painting might be thought wooden and peripheral to the history of art, I believe that the artist has recorded the most important meeting of the Renaissance.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 77 , Issue 479 , July 1993 , pp. 130 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1993

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