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The Treatise on Perspective
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Apr 22, 2002
376 p., 9 x 11
218 b/w + 8 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300097566
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Cloth: $60.00 sc
- Related Categories
- Art and Architecture
History
- Series Information
- Studies in the History of Art Series
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts / Distributed by Yale University Press
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The Treatise on PerspectivePublished and Unpublished
“As this carefully edited and beautifully illustrated work attests, scholars can still get ecstatic about a vanishing point. Highly recommended.”—Choice "With crisp 226 gray-scale images from those texts, this book gathers together a variety of studies of Renaissance perspective treatises that, at their best, read like good murder mysteries. The essays are primarily original scholarship and allow the excitement of the scholar’s discoveries about the treatise and the artist’s original discoveries on perspective to come through. . . . . An intriguing and perhaps timely reminder that at one time, the fields of art and science were closely interrelated."—Publishers Weekly "This learned and stimulating book invites some additional lines of inquiry. . . . Architectural historians should be grateful to this collection of mostly art historical essays for having brought some such issues without solving them once again to the forefront, in a new and often thought-provoking context."—Mario Capo, JSAH
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