Andrea Pozzo was an architect, writer and painter spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The focus of this study is on his paintings of perspectival illusions and his treatise on perspective entitled, Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum published in two volumes in 1693 and 1700. This thesis seeks to understand the work of Pozzo in light of contemporary philosophical debate over the deception of the senses and their ability to distinguish truth from illusion. Pozzo's intentions are examined through a study of the positions of Rene Descartes, Galileo Galilei and other related artists and architects on the technical and ethical issues surrounding the deceptive nature of perspective illusions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30135 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | O'Toole, Jodi L. |
| Contributors | Perez-Gomez, Alberto (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Architecture (School of Architecture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001763440, proquestno: MQ64117, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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