The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Edgerton, Samuel Y. Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009. |
| Series: | Cornell paperbacks.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Picturing the Mind's Eye
- 2. Crisis in Christendom
- 3. And God Said, "Let There Be Light!" Perspectiva naturalis
- 4. Fra Antonino
- 5. When Did Perspectiva naturalis Become Perspectiva artificialis?
- 6. Brunelleschi's Mirror
- 7. Brunelleschi's Method
- 8. Brunelleschi's Second Perspective Panel
- 9. Brunelleschi's Heritage: Masaccio's Trinity
- 10. "Oh, che dolce cosa è questa prospettiva!" Donatello and Masaccio
- 11. More Masaccio, Masolino, and Even Fra Angelico
- 12. Alberti's Method
- 13. Alberti's Window
- 14. Alberti's Legacy: Raphael's Stanza delta Segnatura and Beyond
- 15. Galileo's "Perspective Tube"
- Postface: Post perspectivam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index