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The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe
- Title
- The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.
- Author
- Edgerton, Samuel Y.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 199 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cornell paperbacks
- Subjects
- Note
- Update and sequel to: The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 è 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.
- Call Number
- NC748
- ISBN
- 9780801447587 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801447585 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801474804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801474809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008031951
- OCLC
- 237788691
- Author
- Edgerton, Samuel Y.
- Title
- The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
- Series
- Cornell paperbacks
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.
- Added Author
- Edgerton, Samuel Y. Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
- Research Call Number
- *R-ART NC748 .E34 2009