Studies in Perspective

By Jan Vredeman de Vries

When the Renaissance reached Northern Europe, Jan Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604) ranked among its most influential advocates. His books of architectural engravings opened new avenues of invention, reflecting the era's artistic crosscurrents. Their combination of Northern and Southern elements forms a powerful expression of sixteenth-century Netherlands culture and constitutes a new style that spread throughout Germany, Scandinavia, and the British Isles.
This book, the last and greatest of Vredeman's works, perpetuated not only the Renaissance interest in perspective but also the important work done by Dürer, from whom Vredeman acquired much of his knowledge. These engravings include exteriors of architectural structures, Gothic interiors, gardens, medieval townscapes, and views into domes or vaults and down many-tiered stairwells. More than 70 plates offer a fascinating collection for any art lover.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Mar 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9780486154275

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STUDIES IN

PERSPECTIVE

STUDIES IN

PERSPECTIVE

JAN VREDEMAN DE VRIES

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ADOLF K. PLACZEK

AVERY LIBRARY • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

MINEOLA, NEW YORK

Copyright

Copyright © 1968, 1996 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

Studies in Perspective, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1968 under the title, Perspective, and republished in 2010, is a republication of the work originally published by Henricus Hondius in Leiden in 1604 and (Pars altera) 1605. The text which accompanied the illustrations has been omitted for this reprint. A new Introduction was written specially for the 1968 edition by Adolf K. Placzek. The translations appearing on pages vi, viii, x, xii, and 50 are by Stanley Appelbaum.

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