Transactions of the Architectural Institute of Japan
Online ISSN : 2433-0027
Print ISSN : 0387-1185
ISSN-L : 0387-1185
THE FIRST PERSPECTIVE PANEL OF BRUNELLESCHI PART II PROBLEMS OF SEEING : Study on the Method of Brunelleschi
TOSHIO ASANO
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1983 Volume 327 Pages 135-142

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This paper makes an analysis of the technical problems of the "first" perspective panel of San Giovanni Baptistery made, as describes Manetti, by an architect Brunelleschi. The part I of the paper analysed the problems of the way of drawing the perspective. The part II analyses the technical problems of the way of seeing it, which constitutes the proper subject of this study. Principal conclusions of the part II are as follows, [1] Manetti's description on the San Giovanni perspective panel describes not the way of making the perspective picture or drawing, as many assumed so far, but the way of SEEING it. The way of seeing it means a way of verifying it. [2] <Panel (picture)-Peep hole-Mirror-Objects> is just an instrument, an experimental instrument of the verification. The verification of the picture means an examination of the picture's agreement or disagreement with the objects which it depicts. The instrument can make the examination very closely. [3] The verification proves the possibility of the perspective picture. -A correctly made perspective picture can depict correctly a reality, can also depict or project correctly a not jet existing but coming to exist reality, which characterizes distinguishably architectural projection.
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