IVIV Sportello

[Doug Millison]

Nice catch, Dave!

See, too, McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy.  Perspective in drawing and  
painting is related to print technology, he argues at some length.


On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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