Maurits Cornelis Escherオランダ, 1898–1972Belvedere
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『Belvedere』は今どこに？ 所蔵: シカゴ美術館, シカゴ. 現在は展示されていません. 確認 2026年9月29日.
シカゴ, アメリカ合衆国
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作品について
『物見の塔』（ものみのとう、Belvedere（ベルヴェデーレ））は、オランダの画家マウリッツ・エッシャーによる1958年5月に制作されたリトグラフ作品である。一見すると正常な形状の展望台が描かれているが、実際には不可能物体になっている。
原題の"belvedere"は、イタリア語で「美しい景色」の意味である。
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- 1987.199.10
カタログ収録
出典
- シカゴ美術館
- 画像： シカゴ美術館 — © the artist or rights holder
その頃、Maurits Cornelis Escherの人生では
生涯をすべて見る1956–1960
The Penroses and “impossible figures”
“House of Stairs” (1951) attracted the interest of the mathematician Roger Penrose and his father, the biologist Lionel Penrose; in 1956 they published a paper on impossible objects and later sent Escher a copy. He replied, admiring their continuously rising flights of steps, and enclosed a print of “Ascending and Descending” (1960); he went on to use the Penrose triangle repeatedly, notably in “Waterfall” (1961).
1957–1959
Coxeter and “Circle Limit”
In 1957 the geometer Donald Coxeter, with Escher’s permission, used two of his drawings in a paper on crystal symmetry and sent him a copy; the figure of a hyperbolic tessellation, with tiles shrinking rapidly towards the edge of a circle, “gave him quite a shock” — here was a way to represent infinity on a plane. He called his experiments “Coxetering”; they gave the series of wood engravings “Circle Limit I–IV”, and in 1959 Coxeter concluded that they were accurate to the millimetre.
1958–1959
Books on tessellations and on his own graphic work
In 1958 came the book “Regelmatige vlakverdeling” (“Regular Division of the Plane”), on the systematic build-up of mathematical designs, and in 1959 “Grafiek en tekeningen” (“Graphics and Drawings”), in which Escher himself commented on 76 works. After reading it in 1959 Albert Flocon began a correspondence with the artist and wrote, with André Barre, the book “La Perspective curviligne”.
August – October 1960
Lectures on symmetry: Cambridge, Ottawa, MIT
In 1959 Escher met the chemist and crystallographer Caroline MacGillavry and at her invitation gave a lecture on symmetry at the international crystallographic conference in Cambridge in August 1960. On 29 August he sailed for Vancouver, and in October lectured in Ottawa and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
