Jewellery box ➔ Pitágoras.


Identifier:
MusA-1889
Description
This jewellery box is a handmade piece, crafted out in wood and veneered with partridge's eye wood. Its decoration is made with different noble woods such as satinwood, ironwood, rosewood, holly and maple wood, chestnut wood, ash wood, elm tree root and olive root, boxwood wires, ebony wood and treated cow bone. Due to the symbology of the shape used to decorate the lid of the jewellery box, the author called it Pythagoras.
 
Geometrically, the jewellery box is a rectangular prism. The shape used to decorate the lid illustrates one of the simple proofs of the Pythagoras theorem "The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the legs”.
Dimensões
10,1 cm; width
Date
24/09/2021
Languages
Portuguese
English




Related people
Engenheiro Joaquim Domingos Capela (1943) (artisan)
Engenheiro Joaquim Domingos Capela (1943) (donnor)
Related place
São Félix da Marinha (was created at)
Related Term
Related Terms
Exhibitions (depicts)
Jewelry box (depicts)
Geometry, Solid (depicts)
Polyhedron (depicts)
Parallelepiped (depicts)
Pythagoras Theorem (depicts)
UA University cooperation (depicts)