Contents

• Introduction: picturing the mind’s eye
• Crisis in Christendom
• And God said, "Let there be light!" perspectiva naturalis
• Fra Antonino
• When did perspectiva naturalis become perspectiva artificialis?
• Brunelleschi’s mirror
• Brunelleschi’s method
• Brunelleschi’s second perspective panel
• Brunelleschi’s heritage: Masaccio’s Trinity
• "Oh, che dolce cosa è questa prospettiva!" Donatello and Masaccio
• More Masaccio, Masolino, and even Fra Angelico
• Alberti’s method
• Alberti’s window
• Alberti’s legacy: Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura and beyond
• Galileo’s "perspective tube"
• Postface: post perspectivam