Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Theory and Practice of Perspective in Vitruvius’ De Architectura 3. Geometries of the ‘Phàntasma’ 4. Computer Vision and Painters' Visions in Italian and Netherlandish Art of the Fifteenth Century 5. Alberti's Media Lab 6. Constructing Perspective in Sixteenth Century Nuremberg 7. Sebastiano Serlio Prospettico: Stages in his Artistic Itinerary during the 1520s 8. Sebastiano Serlio: Placing Perspective at the Service of Architects 9. Sophisticated Geometry, Baroque Composition 10. 'The Eye of the Sun': Galileo and Pietro Accolti on Orthographic Projection 11. Fortification and Military Perspective in Seventeenth Century France 12. Pictorial versus Intellectual Representation: Teaching Perspective to Architectural Students as the École des Beaux-Art in Paris (1824-1900) 13. From Rationality to Utopia: Auguste Choisy and Axonometric Projection 14. Project and Projections: Some Advantages of the Principle of Opacity 15. Architectural Embodiment: Prosthetics and Parasites

About the Author

Mario Carpo is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Paris-La-Villette. Frederique Lemerle-Pauwels is Director of Research at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance and University Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France.