Martin Kemp, The Science of Art, Optical Themes in
western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, Yale Uni Press, New Haven, 1990
.PART ONE - LINES OF
SIGHT Perspective from
Brunelleschi to leonardo; from Durer to Galileo; from Rubens
to Turner. PART II MACHINE
AND MIND. Machines and
marvels. Seeing, Knowing and Creating. PART III THE COLOUR OF
LIGHT. The Aristotelian
Legacy. New ton and after. Coda. Apendix 1, Explanation of
Linear Perspective. Brunelleschi's demonstration panels.
Lawrence Wright, Perspective in Perspective,
Routledge Kegan Paul
London 1983
a contents
list (from Wright).
Cyril Farey and A. Trystan
Edwards, Architectural
Drawing Perspective & Rendering, Batsford, London 1931, 1949.
Gwen White's A
Book of Pictorial Perspective, John Murry, London , undated c1948,
lithographically printed by Cowell's of Ipswich. The page
can be held up to the light to see further
information.
a contents
list (from White).
Ernest Norling, Perspective Made Easy, Macmillan New York 1939,
a list of the
Twenty Points (from Norling).
Andrea Pozzo Perspective in Architecture and
Painting (Perspectiva
Pictorum et Architectorum of 1693.
a list of the
the first Twelve Figures from Pozzo
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