Introduzione a Roma. Nel volume il gran tema di Roma non e' ridotto a fatto personale, a scena in genere, con descrizioni di fondo impressionistico;e' affrontato per arrivare a una interpretazione integrali di successivi momenti di umanita' e aspetti di civilta'. Vie, piazze, ruderi palazzi mosaici statue basiliche diventano prospettive di tempo, ritratti di epoche, autobiografie di artisti e papi espresse nel linguaggio spaziale degli edifici anziche' a parole, matafore del costume e del gusto.

Cambridge University Press 1988, cm.17x24, pp.208, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Edizione Inglese Michael Kubovy, an experimental psychologist, recounts the lively history of the invention of perspective in the fifteenth century, and shows how, as soon as the invention spread, it was used to achieve subtle and fascinating aesthetic effects. A clear presentation of the fundamental concepts of perspective and the reasons for its effectiveness, drawing on the latest laboratory research on how people perceive, leads into the development of a new theory to explain why Renaissance artists such as Leonardo and Mantegna used perspective in unorthodox ways which have puzzled art scholars. This theory illuminates the author's broader consideration of the evolution of art: the book proposes a resolution of the debate between those who believe that the invention/discovery of perspective is a stage in the steady progress of art and those who believe that perspective is merely a conventional and arbitrary system for the representation of space.