The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures. a Volume Commemorating Alpay ﾖzdural (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004679719)

This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay ﾖzdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, G?ru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile.

This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects.

For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay ﾖzdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https: //doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416




Author: G?ru Necipoğlu
ISBN-10: 9004679715
ISBN-13: 9789004679719
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2023
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback