The 4th International Laboratory for the History of Science
Art, Science and Techniques of Drafting in the Renaissance

SESSION 1
Florence, 25-26 May 2001

Brunelleschi's perspectival experiments
and the historical development of drafting instruments
Coordinator: Prof. Filippo Camerota


This section of the Laboratory will examine the role of mathematical instruments in the development of Renaissance drawing methods, from Brunelleschi's first perspective demonstrations to sixteenth-century cartographic projections.

 

FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2001

•   Brunelleschi's first demonstration of perspective
Filippo Camerota, Brunelleschi's panels
Volker Hoffmann, Brunelleschi's invention of linear perspective: The fixation and simulation of the optical view
•  Alberti's De pictura: geometry and practice
Pietro Roccasecca, Leon Battista Alberti's "modo ottimo"
•  Perspective instruments at work
Filippo Camerota, Demonstration
•  Wooden inlay and drawing regular bodies (Santa Maria del Fiore, Sacristy) Margaret Daly Davis, The wooden inlay decoration of the Sacristy: perspectival intarsia, pictorial intarsia
•  Brunelleschi's first demonstration of perspective in situ (Santa Maria del Fiore, Main door)

PROTOCOL OF FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2001

           


SATURDAY, 26 MAY 2001

•  Perspective and map-making
Filippo Camerota, Alberti's "orizzonte"
David Woodward, The taste for map projection in the Renaissance

•  Perspective and map-making: transformation and projection
Angelo Cattaneo, Renaissance cartographic methods
•  Perspective and map-making: topography, urban views and instruments
Lucia Nuti, Perspective and map-making. Topography, urban views and instruments
Filippo Camerota, Baldassarre Lanci's "distanziometro"
•  A visit to Vasari's View of Florence in Palazzo Vecchio, Sala di Clemente VII
•  A look at Danti's geographical maps in the Guardaroba of Palazzo Vecchio
•  A visit to the Stanza delle Matematiche in the Galleria degli Uffizi

PROTOCOL OF SATURDAY, 26 MAY 2001