La Perspective, Avec la Raison des ombres et miroirs 1612
(The Perspective, With the Reason for Shadows and Mirrors)
Author Salomon de Caus
About the author
Salomon de Caus was an architect- mathematician and and hydraulic engineer.
He was famous for his garden design with magnificent waterworks and for his many publications on topics relating to the arts and science. His influence was at the courts of the southern and northern Netherlands, in Germany and in England, where his younger brother Isaac de Caus was active.
Caus addresses his treatise to architects, engineers, painters, and all those who wield a compassand dedicates his work to the 17-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales
whom Caus had been tutoring in art for two or three years.
In the book he reviews the fundamentals of geometry and perspective before treats several specific problems of illusion in painting and drawing,
He does several individual ‘case studies’ on matters of extreme perspective. He underlines his studies with technical drawings, the illustrations in the book.
And its table of contents make immediately clear Salomon de Caus’ intention to deal first with perspective rendering, then shadows and finally mirrors
It seems clear to Caus that the shadows cast by torchlight and central perspective itself share a single mode
It seems clear to Caus that the shadows cast by torchlight and central perspective itself share a single mode
The book has chapters from a, b, c, e, f, g, l, m, o, p, q, t, v, (13); the names of the chapters start with these letters. He makes clear that he wants to deal first with perspective rendering, then shadows, and finally mirrors.
The size of the book is 18.78 x 25.13 cm, so not that big
And it has 13 pages.