Book 1975
The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective
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- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Perspective -- History.
- Visual perception -- History.
- Art, Renaissance.
An evaluative account of the rediscovery of geometric linear perspective in fifteenth-century Italy, the artists, architects, and mathematicians who studied and applied its principles, and its pervasive impact on Rennaissance and post-Renaissance life.