Art: PerspectiveThere are 12 items
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De artificiali p[er]spectiva
Toul, Pierre Jacobi, 1505 (9 July [i.e. 23 June])First edition of the first printed treatise on artists’ perspective, a practical book of instruction with a text in Latin and French illustrated by an astonishing series of full-page woodcuts demonstrating the perspectival representation of landscapes and of architectural exteriors and interiors, both with and without human figures, in a way which seems to belong to two centuries later, if not to our own time. It is the first book printed at Toul (Meurthe-et-Moselle), one of twenty-two known copies, the first copy to be publicly offered for sale since 1935, and apparently one of only two copies remaining in private hands.
Bound with Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem] M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit. Venice, Joannes Tacuinus, 22 May 1511
Bound with Dürer, Albrecht. Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt, in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen, durch Albrecht Dürer zu samen getzogen, und zu nutz allen kunstlieb habenden mit zu gehörigen figuren, in truck gebracht, im jar. M.D.XXV. Nuremberg, [Hieronymus Andreae, called Hieronymus Formschneider?], 1525 -
Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel und richtscheyt, in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen, durch Albrecht Dürer zu samen getzogen, und zu nutz allen kunstlieb habenden mit zu gehörigen figuren, in truck gebracht, im jar. M.D.XXV
Nuremberg, [Hieronymus Andreae, called Hieronymus Formschneider?], 1525First edition (first state) of “Instruction in measurement with compass and ruler”, the first of the three theoretical treatises published by Dürer towards the end of his life, one of the earliest mathematical works published in the German vernacular, and among the most beautiful printed books of the German Renaissance.
Bound with Pélerin, Jean, called Viator. De artificiali p[er]spectiva. Toul, Pierre Jacobi, 9 July (i.e. 23 June) 1505
Bound with Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem] M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit. Venice, Joannes Tacuinus, 22 May 1511 -
Architectura civil recta, y obliqua. Considerada y dibuxada en el Templo de Ierusalen. Erigido en el Monte Moria por el Rey Salomon. Destruido por Nabucodonosor Emperador de Babylonia. Reedificado por Zorobabel Nieto de los Reyes Iudos. Y restaurado despues por el Rey Herodes. Y ultimamente convertido en cenizas por los Soldados de Tito Hijo de Vespasiano Emperador. Promovida a suma perfeccion en el templo y palacio de S. Lorenço cerca del Escurial
Vigevano (Italy), En la Emprenta Obispal por Camillo Corrado, 1678First printing of the most ambitious Spanish architectural treatise to date, a provocative work in which the author argues the superiority of “oblique” architecture to “straight” (Vitruvian) architecture, and famously censures Bernini’s designs for the colonnade around St. Peter’s Square, staircase in the Vatican, and equestrian statue of the Emperor Constantine. The book is the earliest of eight publications issued under the imprint “En la Emprenta Obispal por Camillo Corrado” (Typis Episcopalibus apud Camillum Conradam) at the Italian town of Vigevano, where Caramuel was bishop from 1673 until the end of his life. It is notably difficult to obtain “complete” and in good condition, and its absence from collections of architectural books developed over many years, such as the RIBA/British Architectural Library, Fowler Collection of Early Architectural Books at Johns Hopkins University Library, and Canadian Centre for Architecture, is telling evidence of the difficulty of procuring a copy. -
The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective
New York, Basic Books, 1975(24 cm), xvii (1), 206 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - An account of the historical development of linear perspective out of thirteenth-century theories of optics with a discussion of the impact of the 15th-16th century rediscovery of perspective upon science, religion and the economy. First edition of this influential book. ¶ Price clipped from dust jacket. Very good, unmarked copy. -
Anamorphic art : translated by W.J. Strachan
New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1977(28.5 cm), viii, 182 (2) pp., 129 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - The history of anamorphic art from the 16th through the 18th century, with an entire chapter devoted to perhaps the best-known example of anamorphoses in the history of art: Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” of 1532. Later chapters on anamorphoses in the 17th century focus on René Descartes, Marin Mersenne, and on the latter’s pupil, Jean-François Niceron, from whose treatise of 1638 Baltrušaitis derived the title for his own book (Anamorphoses ou Magie artificielle des effets merveilleux, Paris: Olivier Perrin, 1969). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
De naturali et artificiali perspectiva : bibliografia ragionata delle fonti teoriche e delle ricerche di storia della prospettiva : contributo alla formazione della conoscenza di un'idea razionale, nei suoi sviluppi da Euclide a Gaspard Monge (Studi e documenti di Architettura, 9-10)
Florence, Edizione della Cattedra di Composizione Architettonica / Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze, 1979(22 cm), 520 pp., 157 text illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. - A detailed critical bibliography of books on perspective and of studies and research on the theory of perspective, arranged first topically and then historically, and made accessible through a detailed index of names. ¶ Inch-long tear in dust jacket, other minor defects. -
Geometrical perspective from Brunelleschi to Desargues : a pictorial means or an intellectual end? (Annual lecture on aspects of art, Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy, 15 February 1984)
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985(25 cm), (2), pp.89-132 pp., xiii p. of plates. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “Surveys the major 15th-16th c. treatises on perspective by both artists and scientists in an attempt to show how perspective theory, central to the visual arts in the 15th c., became absorbed by ca. 1600 into the domain of professional mathematics as an abstract, deductive science lying outside the competence and interests of artists” (RILA abstract). Offprint from Proceedings of the British Academy, volume 70 (1984). ¶ Wrappers sunned, rubbed; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
Trattati di prospettiva, architettura militare, idraulica e altre discipline. Saggi e note (papers of a conference 2-17 May 1985, Università internazionale dell’Arte di Venezia; Storia della editoria veneta, 3)
Vicenza, Neri Pozza Editore, 1985(22 cm), 166 (2) pp., [24] p. of plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Six essays, by Decio Gioseffi (Edizioni a stampa veneziane di trattati di prospettiva nel corso del Cinquecento), Vincenzo Fontana (Architettura militare), Salvatore Ciriacono (Trattati di agricoltura, di idraulica e di bonifica), Tiziana Pesenti (Il “Dioscoride” di Pier Antonio Mattioli e l’editoria botanica), Adriana Chemello (”De’ più piacevoli e de’ più ingegnosi giuochi”: Morfologia del gioco in alcuni trattati del Cinquecento), Giovambattista Gasparini (Considerazioni sull’origine dei concetti informatori delle fonti normative veneziane nel Medio Evo). ¶ Wrappers rubbed; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
The Science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1990(29 cm), viii, 375 (1) pp., 549 black & white illustrations, 16 colour plates. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - An attempt to trace the historical connection between the science of optics and the art of painting, “which is not only itself a monument of scholarship but one which will, for years to come, provide a foundation on which future scholarship will build” (John White, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 133, April 1991, p.271). ¶ Dust jacket slightly damaged (no losses); otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
Die Ästhetik geometrischer Körper in der Renaissance
Stuttgart, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995(24 cm), 125 (3) pp., 86 illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The second half of the book (Polyeder als künstlerisches Thema in Deutschland; Polyeder in deutschen Müsterbuchern) deal in turn with the perspective treatises of Dürer, Wolfgang Schmid, Augustin Hirschvogel, and Heinrich Lautensack; the pattern books of Lorenz Stör, Hans Lencker, Wenzel Jamnitzer, Jamnitzer’s followers, Johann Jakob Ebelmann. The Italian perspective treatise of Daniele Barbaro and Lorenzo Sirigatti are also considered. Originally presented as the author’s thesis. Out of print. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Von der Kunst perspectiva und andere Kunsttraktate, Ornamentstichfolgen und Schriftmusterbücher der Renaissance und des Barock (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, 18 March-24 June 2001; Ausstellungskatalog 16)
Schweinfurt, Dr Otto-Schäfer Stiftung E.V., 2001(28 cm), 47 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 38 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The earliest item is Jean Pélerin, dit Viator’s Von der Kunst Perspectiva (Nuremberg 1509); the latest is Abraham Bosse’s De la maniere de graver a l’eau forte et au burin (Paris 1745). Reviewed by Frédéric Barbier, in Revue française d’histoire du livre, 114-115 (2002), pp.231-233. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The treatise on perspective : published and unpublished (Papers presented at the first Kress-Murphy Symposium held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 7-8 November 1997: CASVA Symposium Papers, 36; Studies in the history of art, 59)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, [2003](29 cm), 376 pp., 226 illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Essays by Claire Farago (How Leonardo da Vinci’s editors organized his Treatise on painting and how Leonardo would have done it differently), Hubert Damisch (A tale of two sides: Poussin between Leonardo and Desargues), J.V. Field (Piero della Francesca’s perspective treatise), Janis C. Bell (Zaccolini’s unpublished perspective treatise: why should we care?), Miles L. Chappell (Cigoli’s Prospettiva pratica: unpublished but not unknown), Francesca Fiorani (Danti edits Vignola: the formation of a modern classic on perspective), Lyle Massey (Configuring spatial ambiguity: picturing the distance point from Alberti to anamorphosis), Jean Dhombres (Shadows of a circle, or, What is there to be seen?: some figurative discourses in the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century), Daniela Lamberini (Machines in perspective: technical drawings in unpublished treatises and notebooks of the Italian Renaissance), Christopher S. Wood (The perspective treatise in ruins: Lorenz Stoer, Geometria et perspectiva, 1567), Margaret Daly Davis (Perspective, Vitruvius, and the reconstruction of ancient architecture: the role of Piero della Francesca’s De prospectiva pingendi), Myra Nan Rosenfeld (From Bologna to Venice and Paris: the evolution and publication of Sebastiano Serlio’s Books I and II, On geometry and On perspective, for architects), Christy Anderson (The secrets of vision in Renaissance England), Rocco Sinisgalli (Leonardo’s conical sections).Offered with The Geometry of seeing : Perspective and the dawn of virtual space (handlist for an exhibition at The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 16 April-7 July 2002). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2002. (15 × 19 cm), [6] pp., colour illustrations. 48 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial self-wrappers. ¶ Very good, unmarked copies.
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