MC Escher

The Dutch artist Maurits C. Escher was a draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry
designer, and muralist, but his primary work was as a printmaker. Aspiring to be an architect,
Escher enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. Escher’s
mature style emerged after 1937 in a series of prints that combined meticulous realism with
enigmatic optical illusions. Working in lithograph, wood engraving, and woodcut, he
portrayed with great technical virtuosity impossible architectural spaces and unexpected
metamorphoses of one object into another. Sometimes referred to as the “father of modern
tessellations,” Escher commonly used geometric grids to form intricate interlocking designs.

Relativity
The imagery of the lithograph is seen an architectural
structure that does not adhere to the common rules of gravity.
Pinapakita sa picture na yung stairs diyan ay di tulad ng
ordinaryong hagdan, kundi parang may kanya kanya silang
direksyon kung san papunta at hinde ito nasa typical na
pwesto, because Escher really likes optical illusion when
making his work. Escher takes that geometric curiosity as a
starting point to create not only one impossible shape but a
completely impossible world with multiple simultaneous
orientations of gravity.

Luca Pacioli
He was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan
friar who also collaborated with his friend Leonardo da
Vinci. Pacioli was a man of deep faith coupled with a great
love for knowledge. Compiling and summarizing the works
of his contemporaries, he made their knowledge available
to the broader public. His publications form a monument to
Renaissance publishing and provide many facts that might
otherwise have been lost to later generations. He was a
man of many faces, just like the polyhedra in his “De divina
proportione”.
 The Polyhedron

A Polyhedron in Euclidean Geometry is a three-dimensional

object composed of a finite number of polygonal surfaces and
named according to number of faces. The polyhedron in the
painting is a masterpiece of reflection, refraction, and
perspective, it is beautifully positioned, suspended with a 3-fold
axis vertical, out of physical contact with the other objects in the
scene. This was the first printed illustration of that polyhedron,
which appeared in Pacioli's 1509 book, De Devina Proportione.
Or the devine proportion. The book was very influential in
circulating information about geometry, and polyhedra in
particular.

And for the generalization here’s Ms. Lapuz