Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe

Name: Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe
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ISBN: 9780801474804

ISBN-10: 0801474809

ISBN-13: 9780801474804

Edition: 2009

Authors: Samuel Y. Edgerton

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 1/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



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 ï¿½ 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


Notes


Bibliography


Index