Greeks & Math
Famous Mathematical Works and Terms
The Birth of Perspective
Famous Artists
Math In Various Times
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The subject of math the Greeks found a personal connection with and are attributed to its creation.
What is geometry?
100
The name of the piece by Masacio created in 1425 that is his first use of linear perspective and was painted in the Brancacci chapel
What is The Tribute Money?
100
The name of the first artist to use linear perspective in art.
Who is Brunelleschi?
100
The artist that created the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
Who is Brunnelleschi?
100
The time period that has been recorded as the beginning of mathematics in ancient egypt.
What is 1650 BCE?
200
The term for the technique the architects created a bulge in columns to better adhere to optical illusion and geometry. Prevalent in Athen's most precious building in the Acropolis.
What is entasis?
200
What part of the Santa Maria chapel was the most groundbreaking mathematically?
What is the Dome?
200
The original style of perspective that was used prior to the major discoveries of math by the Greeks and Romans.
What is oriental perspective?
200
The artist of the Arnolfini Portrait that is known for its use of geometric orthogonal perspective.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
200
Time period known for the birth of linear perspective and use of depth mathematics in paintings.
What is Italian renaissance?
300
The name of the architectural building created in the city-state athens that shows the Greeks' attention to math and geometry
What is parthenon?
300
The term that describes the point that all lines on a piece recede to.
What is vanishing point?
300
The system that projects the illusion of depth onto a 2D plane by use of vanishing points to which all lines converge at the same point on the horizon
What is Linear Perspective?
300
The name of the writer that publicized Brunnelschi's discoveries of linear perspective and solidified his thoughts.
Who is Alberti?
300
The earliest recorded group in Mesopotamia that developed a complex system of metrology from 3000 BC.
Who is Sumerians?
400
The name of the Roman's take on the parthenon that is known for its attention to weight distribution indicating the beginning of the knowledge of gravity and weight.
What is the pantheon?
400
The artistic term that refers to the perfect number you get when you divide a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. The use of this term can be attributed to Michelangelo and his creation of the Sistine Chapel.
What is the golden ratio?
400
The name of the most famous works by Raphael that is known for its mastery of one-point perspective. The piece is believed to have been measured to mathematical perfection with the use of a compass.
What is the school of athens?
400
The sculptor of the piece "david" created in 1400 out of bronze that is one of the first uses of Canon's discoveries of the mathematical body form.
Who is Donatello?
400
The artist Kadinsky was the first to use math during this period in abstract art. He is most known for his use of shapes in abstract ways but still maintaining the mathematical integrity nonetheless.
What is Expressionism?
500
The author of the Canon, a greek book that lists out the mathematical discoveries of the human body's symmetry and maps out the ideal sculptural body on this basis.
Who is polykleitos?
500
The mathematical discovery that architects used to lessen the weight on a structure. The term can be attributed to the discovery of weight and balance and is especially prevalent in domes and larger structures.
What is a coffer?
500
The name of one of the first artists in the 19th century to discontinue the favor of linear perspective and ultimately begin the periods of abstract art that knowingly dismisses the involvement of mathematics.
Who is picasso?
500
This artist is considered the father of all math, science, and the combination of the two into art.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
500
The name of the destructive leader in the 20th century that demanded the return of linear perspective and mathematics in order to revive the use of realism in art.
Who is Adolf Hitler?