Daniele Barbaro s Perspective of 1568 1st Edition by Cosimo Monteleone 9783030766870 303076687X

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• ISBN 10: 303076687X
• ISBN 13: 9783030766870
• Author: Cosimo Monteleone 

A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before. Barbaro was the first to publish a formal treatise entirely dedicated to the science of geometric perspective. In an informal style especially addressed to practicing artists and architects, Barbaro begins by drawing on and expanding the manuscript treatise of Piero della Francesca with regards to basics of perspective constructions for representing three-dimensional solids on two-dimensional media, and then goes on to show that perspective is a particularly suitable instrument for other scientific and artistic applications as well, including cartography, cosmology, stage set design, and anamorphosis. Here for the first time Barbaro’s The Practice of Perspective is made available to contemporary scholars in an English translation, augmented by annotations relating the printed treatise to the three unpublished manuscripts in Italian and Latin of the work now conserved in Venice’s Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. A foreword by Philip Steadman sets the stage for this book. In-depth essays by authors Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone situate the treatise within the editorial panorama of the Cinquecento, outline the innovations that Barbaro brought to the study of perspective, and focus particularly on his creative explorations of geometric solids and the construction of clocks. Sometimes dismissed in recent studies as a compilation of known principles, the aim of this present book is to reveal the truly innovative nature of Barbaro’s experiments and results and restore him to his rightful place as an original scholar of Renaissance perspective theory.

Table contents:

1. [Part I, setting up a perspective]
2. Part II, in which are treated ichnographia, that is, the description of the plan
3. Part III, which treats the ways of raising the body from the plan
4. Part IV, in which will be treated scenographia, that is, the description of scenes
5. Part V, in which is set forth a fine and secret part of perspective
6. Part VI, which is called Planispherio
7. Part VII, which treats lighting, shadows and colours
8. Part VIII, in which are treated the measures of the human body
9. Part IX, in which are described many instruments and ways of rendering and transporting things in pe

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