The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.
2009
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Title
The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.
Created/published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Description
xvi, 199 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Cornell paperbacks
Note
Update and sequel to: The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.
Contents
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.
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.
Series
Cornell paperbacks.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
Item Details
Call number
NC748 .E34 2009