The mirror, the window, and the telescope:how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe
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Cornell University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Ithaca |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cornell paperbacks |
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Item Description: | Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective. |
Carrier Form: | xvi, 199 p.: ill., map ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780801447587 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801447585 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474804 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474809 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | J062 |
CLC: | J062-09 |
Call Number: | J062-09/E233 |
Contents: |
Update and sequel to: The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective. Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index. 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 è 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. |