The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective
| 1. Verfasser: |
Edgerton, Samuel Y.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York [etc.] :
Harper and Row,
1976.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvii, 206 p. : ill, charts, maps ; 24cm. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Chronological outline of the history of linear perspective
- The western window
- Pictures in the service of God
- Alberti's Florence
- Alberti's Compositione
- The fathers of optics
- Alberti's optics
- Enter cartography
- Ptolemy's third cartographic method
- The discovery of the vanishing point
- Brunelleschi's first perspective picture
- The "symbolic form" of the Italian Renaissance.
