Turned geometry: two masterpieces by Georg Friedel

• Autores: Tibor Tarnai, Dirk Weber
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 159, Nº 1372, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Decorative Arts), págs. 544-552
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses two masterpieces by Georg Friedel who is associated with some of the most outstanding seventeenth-century turned ivory objects that are known to have been in the Electoral Saxon Kunstkammer from 1619 onwards. Topics discussed include these masterpieces, a contrefait sphere containing two movable eight-layer balls and a heart-shaped goblet crowned by a multi-layer ball with a total of fourteen concentric spheres encased one inside another.