62 results filtered with: Perspective
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A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.
Date: 1 July 1786Reference: 25991i- Books
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An appendix, or, Second part to the complete treatise on perspective; Containing a brief history of perspective, from the earliest and most authentic accounts of it, down to the eighteenth century, when it first began to flourish in England; in which the methods of practice, used by the ancients, are exemplisied and compared with those now in use. Military perspective; bird's eye views; &c. The appearances of ascending and descending on an upright plane; such deceptions in vision accounted for, and illustrated by stricking representations: with useful and critical remarks on round subjects in general. The application of perspective to scenery; also to a ship; and in landscape; projection on curved surfaces; with other distortions, or anamorphoses; inverse perspective. Also the doctrine of reflection on plane mirrours. And, lastly, it contains a parallel and criticism on all the English authors who have wrote treatises on perspective; and the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor's perspective compared with Guidus Ubaldus, and S'sgravesande. The whole delivered in nine sections, and illustrated by ten plates. Second edition, with additions and improvements. Price one guinea. By Thomas Malton, sen.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: 1800- Books
Samvelis Marolois ... Mathematicvm opvs absolvtissimvm: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturæ, et perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, et figuras perfectissimas / [Samuel Marolois].
Marolois, Samuel.Date: 1633- Books
L'hypothèse d'Oxford : essai sur les origines de la perspective / Dominique Raynaud.
Raynaud, Dominique.Date: 1998- Books
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Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To Adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And To make it an entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are Engrav'd by the Author.
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Pictures
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John Locke: perspective of a bust. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki.
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.Date: c. 1789Reference: 28750i- Books
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Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy; both in theory and in practice: in two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To adapt it entirely to the Arts of Design; And To make it an Entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to their Majesties. Illustrated with many copper-plates, Correctly Engraved under the Author's Inspection. Book I.
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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A treatise of perspective. Or, the art of representing all manner of objects' as they appear to the eye in all situations. Containing The Elements of Designing and Painting. Illustrated with above 50 figures in Copper. Written originally in French, by Bernard Lamy Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of His Majesties Ordnance.
Lamy, Bernard, 1640-1715.Date: 1702- Books
The elements of optics. In four books. Book I. Simple optics, or direct vision. Book II. Catoptrics, or reflected vision. Book III. Dioptrics, or refracted vision. Book IV. The construction of optical instruments / [William Emerson].
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: 1768- Books
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Elements of perspective; containing the nature of light and colours, and the theory and practice of perspective, in regard to lines, surfaces, and solids, with its application to architecture. To which are added rules for painting in transparent water colours. By John Wood Master of the Drawing Academy Established at Edinburgh by the Honourable the Board of Trustees for Manufactories, &c.
Wood, John, Master of the Drawing Academy, Edinburgh.Date: 1799- Books
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Elements of mathematics. Containing Geometry. Conic-Sections. Trigonometry. Surveying. Levelling. Mensuration. Laws of Motion. Mechanics. Projectiles. Gunnery, &c. Hydrostatics. Hydraulics. Pneumatics. A Theory of Pumps. To which is prefixed, the first principles of algebra, By Way of Introduction. For the Use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. Vol. I. and II. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Elements of perspective; Containing the nature of light and colours, and the theory and practice of perspective, in regard to lines, surfaces, and solids, with application to architecture. To which is added, rules for painting in transparent water colours. By John Wood, master of the Drawing Academy established at Edinburgh by the Honourable the Board of Trustees for manufactories, &c.
Wood, John, Master of the Drawing Academy, Edinburgh.Date: 1797- Books
The invention of infinity : mathematics and art in the Renaissance / J. V. Field.
Field, Judith Veronica.Date: 1997- Books
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The young painter's maulstick; being a practical treatise on perspective; containing rules and principles for delineation on planes, Treated so as to render the Art of Drawing correctly, easy of Attainment even to common Capacities; and entertaining at the same Time, from its Truth and Facility. Founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti; united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor. Addressed to Students in Drawing. By James Malton, Architect and Draftsman.
Malton, James, -1803.Date: 1800- Books
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A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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The principles of perspective, explained in a genuine theory, and applied in an extensive practice; with the construction and uses of all such instruments as are subservient to the purposes of this science. By Robert Bradberry.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1795?]- Books
Le due regole della prospettiva pratica / di Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola ; con i comentarij del R.P.M. Egnatio Danti.
Vignola, 1507-1573.Date: 1583- Books
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The art of drawing in perspective made easy to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics. By James Ferguson, F. R. S. Illustrated with plates.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
The science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat / Martin Kemp.
Kemp, Martin.Date: 1990- Books
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Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy; both in theory and practice: in two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And to make it an Entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to their Majesties, And Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Illustrated with many copper-plates, Correctly Engraved under the Author's Inspection.
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
La freccia nell'occhio : psicologia della prospettiva e arte rinascimentale / Michael Kubovy.
Kubovy, Michael.Date: 1992- Books
La perspective affranchie de l'embaras du plan géometral / J.H. Lambert.
Lambert, Johann Heinrich, 1728-1777.Date: 1977- Pictures
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John Locke: frontal view of bust. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki.
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.Date: c. 1789Reference: 28748i- Pictures
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A woman looking through a level and holding a ruler and compasses, standing in front of a grid; representing perspective. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560-1569Reference: 25856i- Digital Images
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Tab. 15. Woodcut diagram. La perspective curieuse...1663.