id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3806 Mathematics and art - Wikipedia .html text/html 13327 1916 67 Each of these is richly associated with mathematics.[93] Among the connections to the visual arts, mathematics can provide tools for artists, such as the rules of linear perspective as described by Brook Taylor and Johann Lambert, or the methods of descriptive geometry, now applied in software modelling of solids, dating back to Albrecht Dürer and Gaspard Monge.[94] Artists from Luca Pacioli in the Middle Ages and Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer in the Renaissance have made use of and developed mathematical ideas in the pursuit of their artistic work.[93][95] The use of perspective began, despite some embryonic usages in the architecture of Ancient Greece, with Italian painters such as Giotto in the 13th century; rules such as the vanishing point were first formulated by Brunelleschi in about 1413,[6] his theory influencing Leonardo and Dürer. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3806.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3806.txt