Preface
Translators Note
Acknowledgements
Daniele Barbaro and the Geometric Solids
Daniele Barbaros Innovations in Perspective Studies
Dedication to Matteo Macigni
Foreword
Part I, setting up a perspective
The Ordering of the principles
On the eye
On the way of seeing
On the thing seen
On distance
On the division of planes
Where the eye must be placed
On the distance
Of the size that figures must be made in the painting
Part II, in which are treated ichnographia, that is, the description of the plan
The practice of describing figures
The way of describing plans
The way to degrade a given plane
The way to reduce the degraded plane into a square
Division of the degraded square according to the perfect square
The way to add to or take away from the degraded square
How to cut a square from a quadrangular surface that is wider than it is long
How to respond to those who, in dividing the plane into braccia, come to have a foreshortening that is larger than the perfect
The plan of the triangle, and how the degraded is made from the perfect form
How to form the plan of a cube
Other ways of making plans
Part III, which treats the ways of raising the body from the plan
Three ways of raising bodies from the plans
Unfolding, raising and shadowing the pyramid
Unfolding, raising and shadowing the cube
Unfolding, raising and shadowing the body called octahedron
Unfolding, raising and shadowing the dodecahedral body
Unfolding, raising and shadowing the body called icosahedron
Description of the irregular bodies that are born from the regular bodies [truncated tetrahedron]
Description of a body that is born from the cube and from the octahedron, and its unfolding [cubocatahedron]
Description of another irregular body that is born from the cube [truncated cube]
Description and unfolding of another body that is born from the cube [small rhombicuboctahedron]
Unfolding and description of a body that is born from the octahedron [truncated octahedron]
Unfolding and description of a body that is born from the dodecahedron and from the icosahedron [icosidodecahedron]
Unfolding and description of another body that is born from the dodecahedron [truncated dodecahedron]
Unfolding and description of another body that is born from the icosahedron [truncated icosahedron]
Unfolding and description of another body that is born from a composite body [great rhombicuboctahedron]
Unfolding and description of another body that is born from a composite body [rectified truncated octahedron]
Unfolding and description of another body composite body [small rhombicosidodecahedron]
Unfolding and description of another body [rectified truncated icosahedron]
Unfolding of some other bodies [truncated pentakis dodecahedron]
Unfolding of another irregular body [truncated truncated icosahedron]
Unfolding of some other bodies [great rhombicosidodecahedron]
Unfolding of another irregular body [truncated truncated octahedron]
Unfolding of another irregular body [great rhombicosidodecahedron augmented with pentagonal cupolas]
Unfolding of another irregular body [great rhombicuboctahedron augmented with square cupolas]
Unfolding of another irregular body
Unfolding of some bodies based on the surfaces of bodies both regular and irregular, and first that which is based on the pyramid [elevated tetrahedron]
Unfolding of a body based on the cube [elevated cube]
Unfolding of a body based on the octagon [elevated octahedron]
Unfolding of a body based on the dodecahedron [elevated dodecahedron]
Unfolding of a body based on the icosahedron [elevated icosahedron]
Unfolding of a body based on an irregular body [elevated cuboctahedron]
Unfolding of a body resting on an underlying body [elevated small rhombicuboctahedron]
Unfolding of another body [elevated icosidodecahedron]
Description of some of the previous bodies with pyramids
Some easy and quick ways to draw plans and bodies
How to degrade many circles drawn on the same centre and divided into several parts
An easy way to degrade without rulers
Description of the torchio, or mazzocchio
The perfect description of the mazzocchio
Part Four, in which will be treated scenographia, that is, the description of scenes
The manners of scenes
Description and shading of the Tuscan base
Description and shading of the Attic base
Description and description of the Ionic base
Description and degradation of columns
Description and degradation of the Tuscan capital
Description and degradation of the Doric capital
Description and degradation of the Ionic capital
Description and degradation of the Corinthian capital
Description of the Doric architrave
Description of the Ionic architrave and the pediment
Rules for the heights of the architraves and ways to transpose them from one size to another
The description and degradation of stairs
Of arches, vaults and doors
Plan, elevation and profile of a temple
Description of the Tragic scene
Description of the Comic scene
Description of the Satiric scene
Part V, in which is set forth a fine and secret part of perspective
[Distorting images]
Part VI, which is called Planispherio
Unfolding, description and degradation of the sphere
Projection of the sphere onto the plane according to the ancients
How to make projections of oblique circles
The projection of the circles of the heights onto the plane
Part VII, which treats lighting, shadows and colours
[The importance of light, colour and chiaroscuro]
On the projection of shadows
Part VIII, in which are treated the measures of the human body
Measurement of the human body
The way to describe the plan of the human head
How to describe heads that are neither in profile nor straight on
The way to make heads that look either up or down
Part IX, in which are described many instruments and ways of rendering things in perspective and transporting them
The authors instrument for making clocks in every climate, on every plane and for every sort of hour
The use of the universal clock
Albrecht Durers instrument for making perspectives
Building another instrument by Baldassarre Lanci
Natural manners of rendering things in perspective
[Appendix] How with a new instrument it is possible to know the inclination of scarps of walls, according to the invention of Giacomo Castriotto
Index.