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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.