This book by Lorenzo Sirigatti covers the same topic as “La perspective, avec la raison des ombres et miroirs” by Salomon de Caus. Both intend to teach the reader the way of perspective drawing. They were even published only sixteen years apart. They follow the same concept: Theory sections followed by example drawings. The book…
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Irina Burau Using the search engine “Alice” with the “Architecture Library” as Alice’s brain and “architecture” as the conversation topic led to multiple dead ends. Keywords like: Perspective, perspective drawing, graphic drawing and Salomon de Caus only led to books about architectural history. The output was heavily based on the conversation topic rather than the…
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Irina Burau “La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs” Salomon de Caus The author of the book was Salomon de Caus, a French engineer and physicist. The title leaves hardly anything up for imagination. One knows exactly what to expect from a book with a title as theoretical and precise as this. His…
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Irina Burau “La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs” Salomon de Caus