Mineralia

After Herbaria and Bestiaria 24 ORE Cultura continues the discovery of the representation of nature in a journey straddling art and design, with a valuable illustrated volume on the world of minerals from antiquity to the present day.

After the plant(Herbaria) and animal(Bestiaria) worlds, this volume concludes a journey into the three kingdoms of nature. In Mineralia to be protagonists are elements only apparently not endowed with “life,” but which prove to be richly endowed with a structural vitality. Minerals, precious gems, but also shells, corals, and skeletons reveal a world in which the geometry and mathematics of nature express all their power and fascination. Not surprisingly, in the past, the presence of the divine was found in the golden section and in the regularity of many natural forms. The same for which today we speak of natural algorithms and fractal geometries.

IN THE SAME SERIES
HERBARIA – ISBN 978-88-6648-598-8
BESTIARIA – ISBN 978-88-6648-661-9

AUTHOR
DOMITILLA DARDI – A design historian and curator, she has been curator for design at MAXXI in Rome since 2010 and has been its Senior Curator since 2022. She is a lecturer in the three-year and master’s programs at the IED in Rome. She has been a visiting professor at several institutions, including the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, the Abadir Academy in Catania, and the MADE Program in Syracuse. She is co-founder and curator of the EDIT Naples design fair. She writes for several trade magazines and is the author of numerous monographs and essays.