Main entry:

Kress-Murphy Symposium (1st : 1997 : National Gallery of Art (U.S.))

Title & Author:

The treatise on perspective : published and unpublished / edited by Lyle Massey.

Publication:

Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 59. Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 36

Notes:
Papers presented at the first Kress-Murphy Symposium held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7-8, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Reception and dissemination of the unpublished treatise: How Leonardo da Vinci's editors organized his Treatise on painting and how Leonardo would have done it differently / Claire Farago -- A tale of two sides : Poussin between Leonardo and Desargues / Hubert Damisch -- Piero della Francesca's perspective treatise / J.V. Field -- Zaccolini's unpublished perspective treatise : why should we care? / Janis C. Bell -- Cigoli's Prospettiva pratica : unpublished but not unknown / Miles L. Chappell -- II. Representing perspective : problems of illustration: Dante edits Vignola : the formation of a modern classic on perspective / Francesca Fiorani -- Configuring spatial ambiguity : picturing the distance point from Alberti to anamorphosis / Lyle Massey -- Shadows of a circle, or, What is there to be seen? : some figurative discourses in the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century / Jean Dhombres -- Machines in perspective : technical drawings in unpublished treatises and notebooks of the Italian Renaissance / Daniela Lamberini -- The perspective treatise in ruins : Lorenz Stoer, Geometria et perspectiva, 1567 / Christopher S. Wood -- III. Architecture and perspective: Perspective, Vitruvius, and the reconstruction of ancient architecture : the role of Piero della Francesca's De prospectiva pingendi / Margaret Daly Davis -- 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 -- The secrets of vision in Renaissance England / Christy Anderson -- Appendix: Leonardo's conical sections / Rocco Sinisgalli.

Summary:

From the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, Europe witnessed significant new developments in the science and art of perspective. This comprehensive and insightful book identifies and discusses the multiple discourses produced on perspective throughout this period by such authors as Leonardo da Vinci, Piero della Francesca, Albrecht D$urer, Sebastiano Serlio, and Matteo Zaccolini. Fifteen distinguished scholars provide commentary on the complex history and variable nature of early modern perspective studies, addressing issues of reception, dissemination, citation, longevity, format, and imagery. These studies revise our understanding of how perspective theory and practice evolved over time and how this unique species of publication affected the course of art, architecture, and mathematics in early modern Europe.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300097565
9780300097566

Subject:

Literaturgruppe Perspektive
Perspective Early works to 1800 Congresses.
Perspective Historiography Congresses.
Perspective Early works to 1800.
Perspective Historiography.
Perspective Ouvrages avant 1800.
Perspective Historiographie.
Perspective Historiographie Congrès.
Perspective
Architekturtheorie
Ästhetik
Perspektive
Perspectief.
Beeldende kunsten.
Perspectiva (congressos)
Perspective (Art)
Histoire de l'art.
Art.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Kongress Washington (DC) 1997.
Kongress Washington, DC 1997.
Proceedings.
Early works
Conference papers and proceedings
Konferenzschrift 1997 Washington DC.
Konferenzschrift 1997 Washington, DC.

Added entries:

Massey, Lyle, 1961-
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 59.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 36.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228977
Call No.: NC748 .T7 1997
Status: Available