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Perspective, Space, and Camera Obscura in the Renaissance

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Contemporary digital media are correlated to spatial GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) coordinates. Spatial information is itself knit together according to absolute coordinates, which may be viewed in conformity with the principles of projective geometry. Such a mode of viewing—relatively recent—has now become completely natural to most electronics users. It is natural to assume that such digital technologies, whose algorithms include projective geometrical processing according to a mobile viewpoint, are descended from the history of western art in the Renaissance. But that genealogy is much contested.

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Verstegen, I. (2021). Perspective, Space, and Camera Obscura in the Renaissance. In: Purgar, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71830-5_5

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