L’art et le nombre. antiquité the cult objects

the cult objects

Memling and Veronese

Based on documents from the French East India Company and on inventories of merchants and individuals after their deaths

Jacques Girard is interested in all manifestations and forms of art

L’art et le nombre. antiquité the cult objectsNumbers are, in Pythagorean thought, the "stuff" of the universe, the principles that govern all things. The work of art is no exception to this observation: it is based on rhythm and proportions, consequently on number, and this is even more evident when a number is at the center of its subject, historical or fictional. This work considers the way in which artistic representation is governed by the number of elements it contains, objects, characters,