The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope
How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe
Edgerton, Samuel Y.
Cornell University Press, 2009
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Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.
- ISBN-13
- 9780801474804
- ISBN-10
- 0801474809
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Publication date
- 2009-02-15
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 155 x 229 x 14
- Weight
- 302