The treatise on perspective
Subtitle: published and unpublished
By: edited by Lyle Massey.
Contributors: Massey, Lyle, 1961-; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Series: Studies in the history of art,; 59.; Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ;; 36; Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ;; 59.; Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.).; 36.
Publisher: National Gallery of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Perspective -- Early works to 1800 -- Congresses.; Perspective -- Historiography -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at the first Kress-Murphy Symposium held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7-8, 1997.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Reception and dissemination of the unpublished treatise:; title: How Leonardo da Vinci's editors organized his Treatise on painting and how Leonardo would have done it differently -- Claire Farago; title: A tale of two sides : Poussin between Leonardo and Desargues -- Hubert Damisch; title: Piero della Francesca's perspective treatise -- J.V. Field; title: Zaccolini's unpublished perspective treatise : why should we care? -- Janis C. Bell; title: Cigoli's Prospettiva pratica : unpublished but not unknown -- Miles L. Chappell -- II.; title: Representing perspective : problems of illustration:; title: Dante edits Vignola : the formation of a modern classic on perspective -- Francesca Fiorani; title: Configuring spatial ambiguity : picturing the distance point from Alberti to anamorphosis -- Lyle Massey; title: Shadows of a circle, or, What is there to be seen? : some figurative discourses in the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century -- Jean Dhombres; title: Machines in perspective : technical drawings in unpublished treatises and notebooks of the Italian Renaissance -- Daniela Lamberini; title: The perspective treatise in ruins : Lorenz Stoer, Geometria et perspectiva, 1567 -- Christopher S. Wood -- III.; title: Architecture and perspective:; title: Perspective, Vitruvius, and the reconstruction of ancient architecture : the role of Piero della Francesca's De prospectiva pingendi -- Margaret Daly Davis; title: 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; title: The secrets of vision in Renaissance England -- Christy Anderson -- Appendix:; title: Leonardo's conical sections -- Rocco Sinisgalli.