ABSTRACT
This chapter succinctly explores and bears testimony to the very distinct interrelationship of the history of art and science starting from the Renaissance period and ending with the age of modernity. In focus, the work of the Italian artist and mathematician Piero della Francesca is used to drive discussion of the synergy between these two discrete but linked academic disciplines. Underlying this is a consideration of how the seeming split and different approaches to knowledge production are achieved, regardless of when in historical context this takes place. The chapter incorporates opportunities for the reader to reference key artistic epistemological representations and frames these across the centuries as they provide a trajectory of the manner in which knowledge is identified, articulated, represented and eventually interpreted. As the penultimate chapter of the overall book, this particular essay serves to frame how what separates the academic disciplines of art and science actually serves as a means of reconciling them when we consider their parallel development since the Renaissance.
