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Conference
Escher and the Droste Effect
Bart de Smit. Introduces: Giuseppe Rosolini
One of the most complex works by M.C. Escher shows a man standing in a gallery looking at a print of a city where the man himself is standing in a building. Escher’s “Print Gallery” also shows a mysterious white hole in the middle.
In an article published in the April 2003 issue of the "Notices" of the «American Mathematical Society», Hendrik Lenstra and Bart de Smit explained how some results obtained on elliptical curves imply what Escher was trying to do in a single “solution”.
This paved the way to fill in the empty space in the middle of the drawing.
The drawing was completed thanks to artists and computer scientists from Leiden University: the white hole contains the whole picture on a small scale, an effect known in Holland as the “Droste Effect” taken from the name of the famous chocolate manufacturers who use it for the pictures on their packaging.
from 15 years old
Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Minor Consiglio
P.zza Matteotti
Scheduled 31.10 21:00-23:00
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