Author: Edgerton, Samuel Y.

mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe. [The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective]
Date2009
Publish_locationIthaca, NY
PublisherCornell University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeDigital Book (PDF)
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberNC748.E34 2009d
Descriptiondig.pdf.[xvi, 199 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.]
NoteThe mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.
Update and sequel to: The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.
Physical copy Gleeson Library.
Local access [Edgerton - Linear perspective.pdf]

Introduction: picturing the mind's eye -- Crisis in Christendom -- And God said, "Let there be light!" perspectiva naturalis -- Fra Antonino -- When did perspectiva naturalis become perspectiva artificialis? -- Brunelleschi's mirror -- Brunelleschi's method -- Brunelleschi's second perspective panel -- Brunelleschi's heritage: Masaccio's Trinity -- "Oh, che dolce cosa รจ questa prospettiva!" Donatello and Masaccio -- More Masaccio, Masolino, and even Fra Angelico -- Alberti's method -- Alberti's window -- Alberti's legacy: Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and beyond -- Galileo's "perspective tube" -- Postface: post perspectivam.

SubjectPerspective Visual perception--History Perspective--History Art, Renaissance
ISBN9780801447587
LCCN2008031951