A New Hypothesis on Dürer's Enigmatic Polyhedron in His Copper Engraving “Melencolia I”

✍ Scribed by Peter Schreiber

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0315-0860
• DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1999.2245

✦ Synopsis

A hitherto unnoticed property of Dürer's truncated rhombohedron, a way he could have constructed it, and a possible motivation for this construction are discussed.