The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective

by Samuel Y Edgerton Jr

8vo. xviii + 206 pp, list of 33 illustrations, acknowledgments, chronological outline of the history of linear perspective, 9 chapters, notes, glossary, index. 6.5" x 9.5" tan cloth boards in pale orange DJ.

Genres: History, Art, Art History

228 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Lamadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was excellent. It's a close look at the very beginnings of the Renaissance development of linear perspective in Florence. Edgerton even tried to recreate Brunelleschi's original experiment using photographs instead of a painting. It's well written so that it feels like a story even though there is no narrative. He proposes some very possible theories of how and why linear perspective became so important in the Renaissance.

[Randal J. Bishop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Samuel Y. Edgerton is the most insightful Art Historian in the history of Western Civilization.