The geometry of an art [electronic resource] : the history of the mathematical theory of perspective from Alberti to Monge / Kirsti Andersen.
This monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 and how new insights within the mathematical theory of perspective influenced the way the discipline was presented in textbooks. In order to throw light on these issues, the auth...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Notes to the reader
- ch. 1. The birth of perspective
- ch. 2. Alberti and Piero della Francesca
- ch. 3. Leonardo da Vinci
- ch. 4. Italy in the cinquecento
- ch. 5. North of the Alps before 1600
- ch. 6. The birth of the mathematical theory of perspective Guidobaldo and Stevin
- ch. 7. The Dutch development after Stevin
- ch. 8. Italy after Guidobaldo
- ch. 9. France and the southern Netherlands after 1600
- ch. 10. Britain
- ch. 11. The German-speaking areas after 1600
- ch. 12. Lambert
- ch. 13. Monge closing a circle
- ch. 14. Summing up
- Appendix 1 : On ancient roots of perspective
- Appendix 2 : The appearance of a rectangle à la Leonardo da Vinci
- Appendix 3 : 'sGravesande taking recourse to the infinitesimal calculus to draw a column base in perspective
- Appendix 4 : The perspective sources listed countrywise in chronological order
- First bibliography. Pre-nineteenth century publications on perspective
- Second bibliography. Supplementary literature
- Index
- Illustration credits.