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HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Alberti's Perspective Paintings

Getting the correct representation involves working out what mathematicians call a section, like conic sections in the case of a cone. Alberti was sufficiently conscious of this artificiality that he went to the trouble of inventing a viewing box that kept the observer at exactly the right distance from the painted image. He realized that the task was to negotiate between the abstract and the concrete.

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