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The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective

Edgerton, Samuel Y.

Year: c1975.

Publisher: Basic Books.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chronological Outline of the History of Linear Perspective

I The Western Window

II Pictures in the Service of God

III Alberti's Florence

IV Alberti's Compositione

V The Fathers of Optics

VI Alberti's Optics

VII Enter Cartography

VIII Ptolemy's Third Cartographic Method

IX The Discovery of the Vanishing Point

X Brunelleschi's First Perspective Picture

XI The "Symbolic Form" of the Italian Renaissance

Notes

Glossary

Index

reviews

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Title:

The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective : Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.

Author:

Edgerton, Samuel Y

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University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2008
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The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective : Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.
Edgerton, Samuel Y
New York: Basic Books, c1975.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01263

Subject Headings:

• Perspective -- History
• Visual perception -- History

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