Inside Out Library

Lo inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica

Accolti, Pietro · 1625 · In Firenze, Appresso Pietro Cecconcelli · 162 pictures

Pietro Accolti's Lo inganno de gl'occhi, a practical perspective manual printed in Florence by Pietro Cecconcelli in 1625 for painters, architects and stage designers. The woodcuts are line-only geometric constructions: lettered polygons, cones and spheres, projection rays, shadow-casting diagrams and gridded ground planes, useful as spare diagrammatic linework, letter-annotated figures and cast-shadow schematics.

Perspective · Shades and shadows in art

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0