Les livres d'architecture

Author(s)	Niceron, Jean-François
Title	La perspective curieuse... Divisée en quatre livres...
Imprint	Paris, J. Du Puis, 1663
Localisation	Tours, Cesr, SR 46 (7163)
Subject	Perspective

François Langlois’s widow, Madeleine Collemont, who had remarried Pierre II Mariette in 1655, relayed one part of her collection to Mariette’s brother-in-law, the publisher Jean Du Puis (1663-1675). In 1663 he republished the entire 1652 treatise, modifying only the title page. This reprint, a quarter of a century after Niceron’s first essay, is evidence of the interest that painters and scholars had in anamorphoses during the 17 ^th century.

Jean-Pierre Manceau (Tours) – 2014

Critical bibliography

N. G. Poudra, Histoire de la perspective ancienne et moderne..., Paris, Corréard, 1864. F. Siguret, “Jean-François Niceron: le dess(e)in politique”, Communications, 34, 1981, pp. 25-40. J. Baltrušaitis, Anamorphoses ou Thaumaturgus opticus. Les perspectives dépravées – II, Paris, Flammarion, 1984. P. Hamou, La vision perspective (1435-1740), Paris, Payot & Rivages, 1995.

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