Soap Bubbles Vanitas Venice
I was a professor at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice for 7 years. I had my studio in the Ca' Dolfin palace, famous for the 10 canvases by Gianbattista Tiepolo which are currently at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg
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I was a professor at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice for 7 years. I had my studio in the Ca' Dolfin palace, famous for the 10 canvases by Gianbattista Tiepolo which are currently at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. I know the city of Venice very well and in 1991 I wrote a book on the geometries of the city La Venezia perfetta (The Perfect Venice) [1] and a revised and reduced version of the book was published in English with the title Venetian Geometry, or the Perfect Venice in one of the three volumes dedicated to the city by Alain Vircondelet Venice Art and Architecture published in 2006 by Flammarion [2] and partially in the magazine on architecture and Math Nexus [3]. A second edition of my book with a new cover and introduction was published in 2019 [4]. In 2013 I was elected a member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti (IVSLA) founded in Venice by Napoleon. Since then I have organized my yearly conferences on mathematics and culture at the Institute which is based in Palazzo Franchetti on the Canal Grande, one of the most famous Venetian palaces, unique for its history and its architectural features (Fig. 1). In my book on Venice I talked about the labyrinthine structure of the city, its topology (a few years later at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Art there was the exhibition Topological Gardens [5] by the US artist Bruce Naumann, who studied mathematics for three years), of the forms found in churches, palaces, squares: helices, symmetries, geometric decorations, glasses called reticello (crossing of spirals). The famous starshaped solid, officially invented by Kepler in 1619 in the volume Harmonices Mundi, made in mosaic many years earlier on the floor of the Basilica of San Marco based on drawings by the artist Paolo Uccello. A geometric and scenographic city, a perennial open-air stage.
M. Emmer (*) Università Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy IVSLA, Venezia, Italy e-mail: [email protected] © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 A. Wonders (ed.) Math in the Time of Corona, Mathematics Online First Collections, https://doi.org/10.1007/16618_2020_26
M. Emmer
Fig. 1 Palazzo Franchetti, IVSLA, Venice. Photo C. Morucchio © by permission
In March 2019 I organized the last (for the moment I hope) Imagine Math, Mathematics and Culture conference (the first was in 1997) at IVSLA and at the same time in the other building of the Institute, Palazzo Loredan, in Campo Santo Stefano two hundred meters from Palazzo Franchetti, I organized an exhibition of the famous Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, with the ten posters he created just for the conference [6]. One of the posters became the cover of the last Springer Series volume Imagine Math 7 published in October 2020 [7] (Fig. 2). Simultaneously with the conference and the exhibition in Venice, a major exhibition on soap bubbles in art and beyond, in architecture, cinema, biology, and of course mathematics, opened in Perugia, curated by
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