The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective
By: Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Perspective -- History.; Visual perception -- History.; Art, Renaissance.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.