IVIV Sportello

[Mark Kohut]

"How drawing shaped the perspective of modern engineering"!

>From our draughtsman who studied engineering.

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV Sportello
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Doug Millison" <dougmillison at comcast.net>, "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 5:20 PM
> Prospettografi descritti dal Dürer.
> Sportello
> 
> http://www.museo.unimo.it/theatrum/macchine/090aogg.htm
> 
> From Filippo Camerota, "Renaissance Descriptive Geometry:
> The
> Codification of Drawing Methods," Picturing Machines
> 1400-1700, ed.by
> Wolfgang Lefevre (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), pp.
> 175-208:
> 
> "If the grid of Leon Battista Alberti derives from the
> method of
> quadrettatura mployed by painters to enlarge their
> drawings, the
> so-called 'sportello,' or window, of Albrecht Durer seems
> to show a
> more direct link with the cartographers' grid....  The
> 'sportello' ...
> represents a constant reference point in the literature on
> perspective
> of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." (p. 180)
> 
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10363
> http://books.google.com/books?id=7Pd0qRQB18kC
>