Introduces masterpieces of the world's art, selected from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with a commentary on each painting and a brief biography of each artist.
Series of impressionistic critical essays on the Renaissance, its people and its art, regarded as a scandal at the time of its original publication in 1873.
the practice & theory of perspective as applied to pictures, with a section dealing with its application to architecture
Cole, Rex Vicat
1976
Contains over four hundred illustrations that show how perspective is utilized in practice, and includes text that explains the theory of perspective, and discusses how to apply the principles of perspective in nature and when drawing architectural details.