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Print, Plate O, F.IIII, Rhombentrikontaeder und Ikosaeder (Rhombic Triacontrahedron and Icosahedron), Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of the Regular Bodies)
Designed by Wenzel Jamnitzer
This print, designed by Wenzel Jamnitzer, court goldsmith to the Habsburg Emperors, belongs to an album featuring geometric figures corresponding to the 5 Platonic solids. Plato connected these geodesic forms with the elements of fire (tetrahedron), earth (cube), air (octahedron), heavenly aether (dodecahedron), water (icosahedron). Here, Jamnitzer presents 2 complex polyhedral variants. |