Perspective and Art

• Part 1: The first paintings
• Part 2: Perception of space in antique painting
• Part 3: Search for the origine of linear perspective through written testimonies
• Part 4: First attemps in geometry

• Part 1: The discovery of linear perspective>
  • a) Filippo Bruneschelli
  • b) Leon Baptist Alberti
  • c) Comparison between Alberti's and Bruneschelli's perspective constructions
• Part 2: How to draw objects in perspective
• Part 3: The problem of the circle
• Part 4: Application in art

• Part 1: Perspective, a tool to represent reality
• Part 2: New ways of perception in art

Conclusion

Go on to next section: Antiquity

Bibliography

• Art and Space, written by Aaron Berkman, published by social sciences publishers, New York.
• Complete perspective course, written by J. Humphrey Spanton, published by the Macmillian company, New York 1900.
• Beyond the third dimension, written by Thomas Banchoff, published by Scientific American, 1990.
• Art and Geometry - A study in space intuition, written by William M. Ivins, Jr., published by Dover publication, 1946.
• Perspective in ancient drawing and painting, written by John White, Ph. D., published by the society for the promotion of hellenistic studies, 1956.
• Geometry and Perspective, written by E. C. Zeeman, FRS, published by Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclass.
• Greek Painting, published by Metropolitain Museum of Art, MCMXLIV.
• Histoire de la perspective ancienne et moderne, written by M. Poudra, published by J. Correard, 1864.
• Mathematik und Mahlerei, written by Georg Wolff, published by B.G. Teubner Leipzig and Berlin, 1916.
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• Origine de la perspective, written by Hubert Damisch, published by Flammarion, 1987, within the contest of the Centres National des Lettres.