PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

Resumo

This article is a detailed study of the defense of linear perspective made by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474) in propositions 12^th and 13^th of Book 1^st of De prospectiva pingendi. The purpose here is to elucidate the logic of argumentation, so as to sustain that it offers the foundation for the convergence of orthogonals in a perspectival representation, in opposition to Piero’s statement that asserts that convergence is the foundation of the result shown in proposition 13^th.