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The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective
Samuel Y. Jr. Edgerton
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Frontmatter
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Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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Chronological Outline of the History of Linear Perspective (page xv)
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I The Western Window (page 3)
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II Pictures in the Service of God (page 16)
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III Alberti's Florence (page 32)
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IV Alberti's Compositione (page 50)
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V The Fathers of Optics (page 64)
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VI Alberti's Optics (page 79)
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VII Enter Cartography (page 91)
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VIII Ptolemy's Third Cartographic Method (page 106)
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IX The Discovery of the Vanishing Point (page 124)
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X Brunelleschi's First Perspective Picture (page 143)
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XI The "Symbolic Form" of the Italian Renaissance (page 153)
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Notes (page 167)
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Glossary (page 194)
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Index (page 202)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 83.3 (1978): 686-687 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197806%2983%3A3%3C686%3ATRROLP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 |
JAAC | 36.3 (1978): 377-378 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8529%28197821%2936%3A3%3C377%3ATRROLP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6 |
ISIS | 68.1 (1977): 150-152 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28197703%2968%3A1%3C150%3ATRROLP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R |
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Published: c1975
Publisher: Basic Books
- 9780465069156 (hardcover)