|
Item Number: 108280
Title: Linear Perspective in the Age of Galileo. LUDOVICO CIGOLI's 'Prospettiva pratica'
Author: Camerota, Filippo
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788822259868
Description: Firenze: Olschki, 2010. 24cm., pbk., 359pp. illus., 20 plates, several in color. Summary: The treatise on Prospettiva Pratica (Practical Perspective), now housed in the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi (2660 A), holds an important place within the context of Renaissance discourse on perspective. Composed by one of the painters closest to Galileo during the period of his great astronomical discoveries (1610 -1613), the manuscript is both a work of artistic literature and a remarkable scientific document about the role attributed to the representation of the visible world within the scope of Galilean research. Between 1610 and 1613, Ludovico Cigoli was both an artist and a scientist. During those years, in addition to composing the treatise on perspective, the artist made extensive astronomical observations drawing with great accuracy the appearance of craters on the Moon and documenting for his friend Galileo, day after day, the position of sunspots. The treatise on perspective is the most significant contribution that the artist could give to the problem of scientific representation arising from the first telescopic observations. Within its pages, crucial issues are explored such as the orthogonal projections that allowed Galileo to explain the phenomenon of sunspots, the shadow projections that allowed him to understand the mountainous nature of the Moon, and even the use of instruments specifically invented by the artist to accurately reproduce faraway objects. (Biblioteca di Galilaeana, 1)
We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available.
Please contact us if you need additional assistance.
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US
Phone: 845-331-8519
Fax: 845-331-0852
Email: michael@artbooks.com