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The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective

Samuel Y. Jr. Edgerton c1975 © Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.
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  • 9780465069156 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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  • Table of Contents

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  • 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)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 83.3 (1978): 686-687 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197806%2983%3A3%3C686%3ATRROLP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
JAAC 36.3 (1978): 377-378 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8529%28197821%2936%3A3%3C377%3ATRROLP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
ISIS 68.1 (1977): 150-152 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28197703%2968%3A1%3C150%3ATRROLP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
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