The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.

Main entry:

Edgerton, Samuel Y.

Title & Author:

The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Icon editions ; IN-69

Notes:
"Icon Editions."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0064300692
9780064300698

Subject:

Perspective History.
Visual perception History.
Art, Renaissance.
Perspective Histoire.
Perception visuelle Histoire.
Art de la Renaissance.
Perspective
Visual perception
Malerei
Perspektive
Renaissance
Ästhetik
Entstehung
Meetkunde.
Perspectief.
Italien

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 139665
Call No.: PO10675; ID:86-B9768
Status: Available

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