Thinking 3D: Leonardo to the Present

Abstract

The Portrait of Luca Pacioli with a Student (1495), reproduced on the first wall of the exhibition space, sets the mood and the intellectual climate of Thinking 3D: Leonardo to the Present, an exhibition held at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford from March 21, 2019 until February 9, 2020. In the painting, Pacioli, a mathematician and teacher of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer, stands in a dimly lit study with one hand on an open book and the other holding a stick, pointing to a geometric ...