Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Illustrations (page ix)
- Acknowledgments (page xiii)
- Chronological Outline of the History of Linear Perspective (page xv)
- I The Western Window (page 3)
- II Pictures in the Service of God (page 16)
- III Alberti's Florence (page 32)
- IV Alberti's Compositione (page 50)
- V The Fathers of Optics (page 64)
- VI Alberti's Optics (page 79)
- VII Enter Cartography (page 91)
- VIII Ptolemy's Third Cartographic Method (page 106)
- IX The Discovery of the Vanishing Point (page 124)
- X Brunelleschi's First Perspective Picture (page 143)
- XI The "Symbolic Form" of the Italian Renaissance (page 153)
- Notes (page 167)
- Glossary (page 194)
- Index (page 202)