The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective

Edgerton, S. Y. (1975). The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective. Basic Books.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1975

Link

https://archive.org/details/renaissanceredis0033edge_f7m2matched

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art_aesthetics

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Primes

• Perspective
  • The integration of horizon lines, vanishing points, and spatial grids structuring the compositional field

Domain-specific

• Mimesis
  • Brunelleschi's perspective demonstration in Florence (c. 1420s), reported by his biographer Manetti, made linear perspective a working technique.

    This sourceEdgerton's Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective reports, after Manetti, Brunelleschi's 1420s perspective demonstrations in Florence.

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    “According to [Manetti], [Brunelleschi] conducted two perspective experiments”

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