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Notes on contributors | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The theory and practice of perspective in Vitruvius's De architectura | p. 5 |
Geometries of Phantasma | p. 19 |
Computer vision and painters' visions in Italian and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth century | p. 31 |
Alberti's Media Lab | p. 47 |
Constructing perspective in sixteenth-century Nuremberg | p. 65 |
Sebastiano Serlio prospettico: stages in his artistic itinerary during the 1520s | p. 77 |
Sebastiano Serlio: placing perspective at the service of architects | p. 95 |
Sophisticated geometry, baroque composition | p. 105 |
"The eye of the Sun": Galileo and Pietro Accolti on orthographic projection | p. 115 |
Fortification and military perspective in seventeenth-century France | p. 127 |
Pictorial versus intellectual representation: teaching perspective to architectural students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1824-1900) | p. 141 |
From rationality to utopia: Auguste Choisy and axonometric projection | p. 151 |
Project and projections: some advantages of the principle of opacity | p. 163 |
Architectural embodiment: prosthetics and parasites | p. 175 |
Index | p. 189 |
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