Pacioli.jpg
Summary
Jacopo de' Barbari : Portrait of Luca Pacioli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q927350,P5102,Q230768
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Title |
Portrait of
Luca Pacioli
(1445–1517) with a student (Guidobaldo da Montefeltro?)
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English:
It shows Pacioli standing behind a table and wearing the habit of a member of the
Franciscan
order. He draws a construction on a board, the edge of which bears the name
Euclides
. His left hand rests upon a page of an open book. This book may be his
Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalità
or a copy of
Euclid
. Upon the table rest the instruments of a mathematician: a sponge, a protractor, a pen, a case, a piece of chalk, and compasses. In the right corner of the table there is a
dodecahedron
resting upon a book bearing Pacioli's initials. An
rhombicuboctahedron
(a convex solid consisting of 18 squares and 8 triangles) suspends at the left of the painting. The identity of the young man at the right is uncertain, but one commentator recognizes the "eternal student" instructed by Pacioli. Some authors have also mentioned the possibility that the student is
Dürer
.
Italiano:
L'opera, pur essendo esposta nella Galleria Farnese, non fa parte della Collezione Farnese, trattandosi di un acquisto dello Stato italiano fatto nel 1903-1904. Il dipinto raffigura il frate
francescano
Luca Pacioli, matematico e studioso delle proporzioni, mentre svolge un problema di geometria. Accanto gli sta un giovane nobile che potrebbe essere identificato con Guidobaldo da Montefeltro. Fra i vari oggetti disposti sul tavolo, il libro aperto presenta delle lettere che si riferiscono al titolo di un'opera del Pacioli, un trattato di matematica pubblicato a Venezia nel 1494 e dedicato proprio a Guidobaldo. Sospeso ad un filo vi è infine un poliedro in vetro nel quale si riflette un edificio molto simile al Palazzo Ducale di Urbino.
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Depicted people | Luca Pacioli | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1495
date QS:P571,+1495-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 98 cm (38.5 in); width: 108 cm (42.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,98U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,108U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q290549
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Accession number |
inv. Q 58
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Exhibition history | 2012 La Città ideale, L’utopia del Rinascimento a Urbino tra Piero della Francesca e Raffaello. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Lauwers, Luc & Willekens, Marleen: Five Hundred Years of Bookkeeping: A Portrait of Luca Pacioli (Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , 1994, vol. XXXIX issue 3 p. 289–304) pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
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"Euclid's Elements", book XIII
inscription "Li. R. Luc. Bur." that possibly means: "Liber Reverendi Lucas Burgensis" (Venerable Lucas from Borgo's book) and than it should be his work "Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita" printed in Venice, 1494
Unknown pupil
EVCLIDES
sponge
Illustration to Euclid's theorem
protractor
cartouche with the inscription IACO.BAR. VIGENNIS. P. 1495, with the enigmatic presence of a fly above it
that possibly means painter's name and age:
"Jacopo de'Barbari 20 years old. Painted in 1495"
The closed book, with the inscription LI.RI.LUC.BUR. ("Liber reverend Luca Burgensis") is supposed to be his Summa de arithmetica, geometry. Proportioni et proportionalita (1494).
Licensing
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