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Temple of Diana
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SOURCE: Richard Brown. Principles of practical perspective (London, 1835), part 2, frontispiece B [pl. 46]
Perspective drawing of the interior or chapel of a mausoleum created from the plan and elevation
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SOURCE: Richard Brown. Principles of practical perspective (London, 1835), part 2, pl. 35
Horizontal perspective drawing of a gallery and lantern-light created from the internal elevation
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SOURCE: Richard Brown. Principles of practical perspective (London, 1835), part 2, pl. 44
Section of an entablature drawn with perspective lines to an infinity point
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NOTES: This drawing is by an unidentified 18th century English architect.
Diagram demonstrating how to draw a perspective of a house
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NOTES: This student drawing was made during the summer term of Pocock's first year at the AA Day School.
Proportion studies of the human head and face
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. La pratica della perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro (Venice, 1559), p. 184
Proportion studies of the human head and face
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. La pratica della perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro (Venice, 1559), p. 186
Proportion studies of the human head and face
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. La pratica della perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro (Venice, 1559), p. 186
Demonstration of Albrecht Durer's Perspective Machine (Lens Perspectiva)
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. La pratica della perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro (Venice, 1559), p. 191 NOTES: This image is after a woodcut by Albrecht Durer entitled 'Man drawing a lute', from his 1525 treatise on perspective.
Study of a naked male figure with arms outstretched and a detail of the head, both with proportions marked
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis Danielis Barbari (Venice, 1567), p. 89 NOTES: Vitruvius's original treatise was written during the first century BC. This 1567 edition was edited and augmented by Daniele Barbaro.
Title page to Book I of Sebastiano Serlio's 'Di Architettura' featuring strapwork ornament and the depiction of drawing instruments
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), title page NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Geometric diagrams illustrating rudimentary lines and angles
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 2 recto NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.