‎FLOCON Albert - TATON René ‎
‎La perspective.‎

‎Traité de perspective a l'usage des artistes, où l'on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & où l'on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspective, leur reverbération dans l'eau, & leurs ombres ; tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.‎

‎à Paris, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, au coin de la rue Gille-coeur, à l'image Notre-Dame. M. DCC. L. 1750 In-4 25 x 20 cm. Reliure de l’époque demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné de petits fers encadrés de roulettes dorées, VIII-241 pp., 110 planches hors texte illustrant respectivement les leçons de perspective et de 56 cul-de-lampe allégoriques à mi-page de Babel., table. Très bon exemplaire.‎

‎édition originale d’un Traité de perspective “longtemps estimé”, Brunet III, 526, divisé en 116 leçons mathématiques, s'appliquant aussi bien en peinture qu'en architecture ou autre discipline, chaque leçon étant illustrée par une planche en regard. Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎NOUVEAU MANUEL COMPLET DE PERSPECTIVE du DESSINATEUR et du PEINTRE, contenant les éléments de géométrie indispensables au traçage de toute perspective, la théorie et la pratique des perspectives linéaires et aérienne, pour l'étude du dessus et de la peint‎

‎Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret Paris 1841 NOUVEAU MANUEL COMPLET DE PERSPECTIVE du DESSINATEUR et du PEINTRE, contenant les éléments de géométrie indispensables au traçage de toute perspective, la théorie et la pratique des perspectives linéaires et aérienne, pour l'étude du dessus et de la peinture, spécialement appliqués au paysage.In-16 ( 150 X 90 mm ) de 273 pages, demi chagrin fauve, dos à nerfs orné de filets et fleurons à froid ( Reliure de l'époque ). 1 gravure en frontispice et 8 planches dépliantes hors-texte. Bon exemplaire.‎

‎MANUEL DE PERSPECTIVE, DU DESSINATEUR ET DU PEINTRE‎

‎L.V.D.V. Inter-livres in-12, cartonnage editeur insole, 253 pp. + 29 planches de dessins.‎

‎contenant les elemens de geometrie indispensables au trace de la perspective, la perspective lineaire et aerienne, et l’etude du dessin et de la peinture specialement appliquee au paysage Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎Perspective as Practice. Renaissance Cultures of Optics‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 512 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:143 b/w, 46 col., 2 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503581071.‎

‎Summary This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The point of departure of this book is the recognition of the polysemy of perspective, that is, the plurality of meanings of perspective. To bring forward the polysemy of perspective, this book explores the history of perspectiva in terms of practices, a conglomerate of material, social, literary and reproductive practices, through which knowledge claims in perspective were produced, promoted, legitimated and circulated in and through a variety of sites and institutions. The ways optical knowledge was used by different groups in different places (such as the university classroom, the anatomist's dissection table, the goldsmith's workshop, and the astronomer's observatory) defined the meanings of Renaissance perspective. As this period was characterized by widespread 'optical literacy', perspective was defined in different ways in different places and sites by various groups of practitioners. Most interestingly, sites such as the theatre, the instrument maker's workshop and the courtly garden were home to practices of perspective which have remained on the margin, or even completely invisible, in the historiographies of optics and perspective. The book also brings out the differences between codifications of perspectiva and practice. There were a variety of non-Albertian constructions to create the illusion of space, and other types of optical knowledge were as important to artists as the geometry of perspective. TABLE OF CONTENTS Sven Dupr , Introduction I. Sites of Perspective Marvin Trachtenberg, Perspective and Artistic Form: Optical Theory and Visual Culture from Giotto to Alberti Marjolijn Bol, The Emerald and the Eye: On Sight and Light in the Artisan's Workshop and the Scholar's Study Samuel Gessner, The Perspective of the Instrument Maker: The Planispheric Projection with Gemma Frisius and the Arsenius Workshop at Louvain Tawrin Baker, Dissection, Instruction, and Debate: Visual Theory at the Anatomy Theatre in the Sixteenth Century Jaime Cuenca, The Princely Point of View: Perspectival Scenery and Aristocratic Leisure in Early Modern Courts Juliet Odgers, The Optical Construction of John Evelyn's 'Dyall Garden' at Sayes Court II. Writing on Perspective Elaheh Kheirandish, Optics and Perspective in and beyond the Islamic Middle Ages: A Study of Transmission through Multidisciplinary Sources in Arabic and Persian A. Mark Smith, The Roots and Routes of Optical Lore in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance Dominique Raynaud, A Hitherto Unknown Treatise on Shadows Referred to by Leonardo da Vinci Sven Dupr , How-To Optics Jose Calvo Lopez, Teaching, Creating, and Using Perspective in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Architectural Notebook of Hernan Ruiz II III. Drawing, Constructing, Painting Filippo Camerota, Masaccio's Elements of Painting: Geometrical Practice in the Trinity Fresco Pietro Roccasecca, Divided into Similar Parts: Representation of Distance and Magnitude in Leon Battista Alberti's De pictura J.V. Field, The Use of Perspective in the Art of Piero della Francesca Paul Hills, The Venetian Optics of Light and Geometry of Proportion Georges Farhat, Constructed Optics and Topographic Perspective at the Grand Canal of Versailles‎

‎La pratica di prospettiva. 2 parts. - [FUNDAMENTAL WORK ON PERSPECTIVE]‎

‎Venice, Girolamo Franceschi, 1596. Folio (400x260 mm). Two parts bound in one later (presumably 19th century) sprinkled full calf with blindstamped geometrical ornamentations to boards. Leather on back board renewed. Engraved title-page neatly restored at inner margin, far from affecting imprint" old owner's inscription (""""Ex libris Ludovici A. la...""), crossed-out previous owner's name, and traces after a stamp to title-page. With Medici arms at the top and those of Sirigatti at foot of title-page, repeated on title-page of part two. As with all other copies we have been able to locate, the title-page is trimmed, affecting approximately 1 cm of the allegorical depictions in margin. Large woodcut printer's device at the end of the volume. Light occassional discolouring, but overall in very fine condition. 1 f. (allegorical frontispiece), 3 ff. (of dedication and index), 43 plates numbered with parallel text, 1 f. (large woodcut printer's device), 22 copper engraved plates (including the title-page of the second part) numbered 44-65. I.e. 65 plates in total - fully complete.‎

‎The rare first edition of this most important work on the art of perspective: ""Questa e la più elegante delle edizioni di libri prospettici per i tipi, pei caratteri, per la carta"" (Cicognara 860). Sirigatti's work is famous for being one of the very earliest thorough works solely dedicated to the art of perspective. Combining the visual language of the German book tradition of Lencker and Jamnitzer with the Italian tradition of linear perspective treated previously by Serlio and Barbaro and earlier that of Leon Battista Alberti (unillustrated), as applied to stage design and architectural theory, this is one of the seminal Italian works on the subject of perspective. Presumably this work functioned as basis for Galileo’s drawing technique. The book quickly became very popular and several Italian editions were reprinted in the 17th century"" its reputation was so long-lived that an English translation was published no less than 160 years after the original. The work is divided in two parts: The first part is dedicated to the elementary rules of perspective to plane and solid geometric figures (which also contain musical instruments like the lute (plate 41 and 42)). The second part depicts architectural elements, facades of palaces and churches, in polyhedrons of various forms and regular Platonic solids, with several references to Luca Pacioli's ""divina proportione"". Furthermore, Sirigatti famously contributed to the study of theatrical perspective: ""He is the first to mention that the full effect of the perspective frame, for instance in a stage set, can be enjoyed only by those sitting along the main axis. This is a fundamental aspect of absolutist theater that no doubt had been noticed by designers of princely entertainments earlier, but is first commented on in print by Sirigatti, whose observations were taken up more extansively by Pietro Accolti."" (Millard).Two problems were endemic in perspective designs. First, because perspective scenery exploits the difficulty of the eyes in judging the sizes and distances of objects, it works best by assigning the spectator to a single point of vision and manipulating relative magnitudes to make small images represent objects that are larger and farther away. Second, the apparent magnitude and distance of painted objects tended to clash with the fixed size of live actors when applied to the theater, threatening to produce absurd combinations of scale when performers wandered upstage. Sirigatti was first to ""acknowledge the problem of spectator position. Sirigatti proposed a way to combine a painted perspective backdrop with fixed three-dimensional scenery that diminished in size as it neared an upstage vanishing point"". (Camp, The First Frame). Sirigatti was not only influential in the theory of architecture and stage design. ""Galileo ""most certainly studied"" La pratica di prospettiva, which was published in Venice while Galileo was teaching nearbyby in Padova, and that when Galileo and Thomas Harriot simultaneously pioneered the use of the telescope to study the moon's surface, it was Galileo's training in chiaroscuro that led him to see mountains and craters where Harriot only saw ""strange spottedness""."" (The Partnership of Art and Science: The Moon of Cigoli and Galileo).Sirigatti was a member of the Academy of Drawing (Accademia del Disegno), a school for artists and engineers (where Galileo studied as a young man). Any young artist or mathematician working his way through Sirigatti and learning to create the spikes on a ring diagram such as this would master perspective and the handling of light and shadow (chiaroscuro). Each spike must cast an appropriate shadow, not unlike the patches Galileo would later discern through his ""perspective tube"" and interpret as the shadows of mountains protruding up from the surface of the Moon.Adams S-1224Cicognara 860Fowler 336Graesse VI,417 Macclesfield 1896Mortimer 479Millard 129 (the 1625-edition)‎