Miscellaneous Polyhedral Art
- This page collects a few images which feature polyhedra in art.
In France, we find this ornate cover page to Jean Cousin's Livre de Perspective (1560). The influence of Leonardo's skeletal polyhedra style is notable:
In England, in Salisbury cathedral, we find the following tomb, built in 1635, for Sir Thomas Gorges and his wife Helena Marchioness of Northampton. It features stone polyhedra in Leonardo's style.
Jumping back to France, we find this perspective image in Jean-Francois Niceron's Thaumaturgus Opticus (1638). It shows a rhombicuboctahedron augmented with a pyramid on each of its square faces (but the triangles unmodified). Note the nice shadows on the faces.
For a thorough history of perspective, see Martin Kemp's The Science of Art (1990).