Title: The treatise on perspective : published and unpublished /
Authors: Massey, Lyle, 1961-
Publisher: National Gallery of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Perspective Historiography.; Perspective Early works to 1800
Contents: Reception and dissemination of the unpublished treatise: how Leonardo de Vinci's editors organized his Treatise on painting and how Leonardo would have done it differently / Claire Farago -- Tale of two sides : Poussin between Leonardo and Desargues / Hubert Damisch -- Piero della Francesca's perspective treatise / J.V. Field -- Zaccolini's unpublished perspective treatise : why should we care? / Janis C. Bell -- Cigoli's Prospettiva practica : unpublished but mot unknown / Miles L. Chappell -- Representing perspective : problems of illustration: Dante edits Vignola : the formation of a modern classic on perspective / Francesca Fiorani -- Configuring spatial ambiguity : picturing the distance point from Alberti to anamorphosis / Lyle Massey -- Shadows of a circle, or, What is there to be seen? : some figurative discourses in the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century / Jean Dhombres -- Machines in perspective : technical drawings in unpublished treatises and notebooks of the Italian Renaissance / Daniela Lamberini -- Perspective treatise in ruins : Lorenz Stoer, Geometria et perspectiva, 1567 / Christopher S. Wood --Architecture and perspective: Perspective, Vitruvius, and the reconstruction of ancient architecture : the role of Piero della Francesca's De prospectiva pingendi / Margaret Daly Davis -- From Bologna to Venice and Paris : the evolution and publication of Sebastiano Serlio's books I and II, On geometry and On perspective, for architects / Myra Nan Rosenfeld -- Secrets of vision in Renaissance England / Christy Anderson -- Appendix: Leonardo's conical sections / Rocco Sinisgalli.