Jessica Buskirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5921076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Buskirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Buskirk |
| SIGNATURE | BUSKIRK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Portraiture and Arithmetic in Sixteenth-Century Bavaria
In his portrait of an unidentified man (Vienna, 1529), Barthel Beham portrays the sitter paused in the midst of a math problem. As has been discovered, the numbers and symbols belong to the vocabulary of numerical calculation. This finding first raises the question of why a patron would want to be shown doing computation with Arabic numerals in a portrait. In 1529, numerical calculation was a commercial tool, not a field with humanistic/social ca…
Early Netherlandish Paintings
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Early Netherlandish Paintings
Portraiture and Arithmetic in Sixteenth-Century Bavaria
In his portrait of an unidentified man (Vienna, 1529), Barthel Beham portrays the sitter paused in the midst of a math problem. As has been discovered, the numbers and symbols belong to the vocabulary of numerical calculation. This finding first raises the question of why a patron would want to be shown doing computation with Arabic numerals in a portrait. In 1529, numerical calculation was a commercial tool, not a field with humanistic/social ca…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Algorithm (1 work) · Arabic (1 work) · Architecture and Art History Studies (1 work) · Arithmetic (1 work) · Computation (1 work) · Field (mathematics (1 work) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (1 work) · History (1 work)