Jcahpo de barbri fra luca pacioli biography

The painting portrays the Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli and may have been at least partially painted by his collaborator Leonardo da Vinci. The painting is mentioned for the first time in a inventory of the Ducal Palace of Urbino.

It was later moved to Florence through Vittoria della Rovere-Medici , belonging to both the reigning dynasties of Urbino and Tuscany. The painting reappeared in the 19th century, as a property of the Ottaviano branch of the Medicis. It was subsequently acquired by the Italian state to prevent its being sold to England. The painting has been generally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari due to the presence of a cartouche with the inscription IACO.

The painting portrays the friar and mathematician with a table filled with geometrical tools: slate, chalk, compass, a dodecahedron model. A rhombicuboctahedron, half-filled with water and characterized by a detailed triple reflection effect of the Ducal Palace of Urbino, is suspended from the ceiling. Pacioli is demonstrating a theorem by Euclid written in an open book.

The Portrait of Luca Pacioli is a painting attributed have an effect on the Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo de' Barbari, dating to around and housed in.

The closed book, with the inscription LI. The researcher Glori in published her ten-years research focused on the cartouche with the inscription IACO. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools.