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Mapping Angels. The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits ( Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatem conversio ). Moretus , Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640). Paolo Uccello, Chalice in Perspective. Leon Battista Alberti , Della Pittura (On Painting)
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The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits (Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatemconversio)
Leon Battista Alberti, Della Pittura (On Painting) 1435 (Latin) / 1436 (Italian) -perspective as a tool to construct a proper ISTORIA -links perspectival painting to rhetoric and geometry -elevate the status of artists and the visual arts -both an intellectual and scientific basis for painting -perspective as a form of inquiry—evidence of the human ability to command knowledge of the world
Jean François Niceron, A chair in regular perspective, La Perspective Curieuse.Paris, 1651 Q=vanishing point R=distance point
Jean François Niceron, A chair in anamorphic perspective, La Perspective Curieuse.Paris, 1651.
Andrea Pozzo,Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work, 1691-94Fresco. Sant'Ignazio, Rome