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From the Vault of the Heavens
A hypothesis regarding Filippo Brunelleschi’s invention of linear perspective and the costruzione legittima
Abstract. Many clues lead to the conjecture that Brunelleschi knew about the use of the astrolabe, an instrument very often used in his times; among his friendships we find the astronomer Paolo Dal Pozzo and engineer Mariano di Jacopo da Siena, who certainly knew how to use the astrolabe accurately. Because this instrument is based on the principle of stereographic projection, a particular kind of central projection, it is quite possible that Filippo applied this principle for the perspective construction outline for Masaccio’s Trinità in S. Maria Novella, as well as for the two lost panels of the Baptistery of Florence.
From the Vault of the Heavens
A hypothesis regarding Filippo Brunelleschi’s invention of linear perspective and the costruzione legittima
Abstract. Many clues lead to the conjecture that Brunelleschi knew about the use of the astrolabe, an instrument very often used in his times; among his friendships we find the astronomer Paolo Dal Pozzo and engineer Mariano di Jacopo da Siena, who certainly knew how to use the astrolabe accurately. Because this instrument is based on the principle of stereographic projection, a particular kind of central projection, it is quite possible that Filippo applied this principle for the perspective construction outline for Masaccio’s Trinità in S. Maria Novella, as well as for the two lost panels of the Baptistery of Florence.
From the Vault of the Heavens
A hypothesis regarding Filippo Brunelleschi’s invention of linear perspective and the costruzione legittima
Jaff, Marco (author)
Nexus Network Journal ; 5 ; 49-63
2003-04-01
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Marco Jaff , Filippo Brunelleschi , discovery of linear perspective , astrolabe , Renaissance astronomy and astrology , Leon Battista Alberti de pittura , Filarete Trattato d’architettura , Masaccio Trinity Santa Maria Novella , panel competition Baptistery of Florence , projective geometry , perspective constructions , invention of perspective Mathematics , Mathematics, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Popular Science, general , History, general