Perspectograph by Tommaso Laureti

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Inventor

Tommaso Laureti (1530-1602)


Historic Period

ca. 1580


Description

Invented by the Sicilian painter Tommaso Laureti, the instrument seems to have been designed more for educational than for purely graphic purposes. It consisted of a frame with a set of strings that the painter positioned, having established the viewing point, superimposing them optically on a set of orthogonal lines traced on the plane beyond the frame. The frame was supposed to demonstrate the biunivocal correspondence between the parallel lines of the real configuration and the converging ones of the perspective drawing.

Egnazio Danti, Le due regole della prospettiva pratica di Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola [The two rules of practical perspective of Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola] Rome, 1583. Theor. XXVII, prop. XXXIII: “That a figure parallel to the horizon is seen, by an eye that is not on the same plane, progressively diminished.” First annotation, p. 39: “I would like to speak here of an admirable instrument, which was taught to me in Bologna by M. Tommaso Laureti, most excellent painter and Perspective theorist, to demonstrate clearly what has been said in this theorem about the progressive receding of the figure...”


Bibliographical Resources

Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi detto il. Le due regole della prospettiva pratica. Con i comentarij del R.P.M. Egnatio Danti. In Roma, per Francesco Zannetti, 1583, teor. XVII, prop. XXXIII; p. 39.



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Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota

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