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Author:   Mario Carpo (Ecole d'architecture de Paris-La Villette, Paris, France) ,  Frédérique Lemerle (University François-Rabelais, Tours, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780415402064

ISBN 10:   0415402069
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   26 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Theory and Practice of Perspective in Vitruvius’ De Architectura 3. Geometries of the ‘Phàntasma’ 4. Computer Vision and Painters' Visions in Italian and Netherlandish Art of the Fifteenth Century 5. Alberti's Media Lab 6. Constructing Perspective in Sixteenth Century Nuremberg 7. Sebastiano Serlio Prospettico: Stages in his Artistic Itinerary during the 1520s 8. Sebastiano Serlio: Placing Perspective at the Service of Architects 9. Sophisticated Geometry, Baroque Composition 10. 'The Eye of the Sun': Galileo and Pietro Accolti on Orthographic Projection 11. Fortification and Military Perspective in Seventeenth Century France 12. Pictorial versus Intellectual Representation: Teaching Perspective to Architectural Students as the École des Beaux-Art in Paris (1824-1900) 13. From Rationality to Utopia: Auguste Choisy and Axonometric Projection 14. Project and Projections: Some Advantages of the Principle of Opacity 15. Architectural Embodiment: Prosthetics and Parasites

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Mario Carpo is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Paris-La-Villette. Frederique Lemerle-Pauwels is Director of Research at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance and University Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France.

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