Daniele Barbaro's Perspective of 1568

Preface.- Translators' Note.- Acknowledgements.- Daniele Barbaro and the Geometric Solids.- Daniele Barbaro's Innovations in Perspective Studies.- Dedication to Matteo Macigni.- Foreword.- Part I, setting up a perspective.- The Ordering of the principles.- On the eye.- On the way of seeing.- On the thing seen.- On distance.- On the division of planes.- Where the eye must be placed.- On the distance.- Of the size that figures must be made in the painting.- Part II, in which are treated ichnographia, that is, the description of the plan.- The practice of describing figures.- The way of describing plans.- The way to degrade a given plane.- The way to reduce the degraded plane into a square.- Division of the degraded square according to the perfect square.- The way to add to or take away from the degraded square.- How to cut a square from a quadrangular surface that is wider than it is long.- How to respond to those who, in dividing the plane into braccia, come to have a foreshortening that is larger than the perfect.- The plan of the triangle, and how the degraded is made from the perfect form.- How to form the plan of a cube.- Other ways of making plans.- Part III, which treats the ways of raising the body from the plan.- Three ways of raising bodies from the plans.- Unfolding, raising and shadowing the pyramid.- Unfolding, raising and shadowing the cube.- Unfolding, raising and shadowing the body called 'octahedron'.- Unfolding, raising and shadowing the dodecahedral body.- Unfolding, raising and shadowing the body called 'icosahedron'.- Description of the irregular bodies that are born from the regular bodies [truncated tetrahedron].- Description of a body that is born from the cube and from the octahedron, and its unfolding [cubocatahedron].- Description of another irregular body that is born from the cube [truncated cube].- Description and unfolding of another body that is born from the cube [small rhombicuboctahedron].- Unfolding and description of a body that is born from the octahedron [truncated octahedron].- Unfolding and description of a body that is born from the dodecahedron and from the icosahedron [icosidodecahedron].- Unfolding and description of another body that is born from the dodecahedron [truncated dodecahedron].- Unfolding and description of another body that is born from the icosahedron [truncated icosahedron].- Unfolding and description of another body that is born from a composite body [great rhombicuboctahedron].- Unfolding and description of another body that is born from a composite body  [rectified truncated octahedron].- Unfolding and description of another body composite body [small rhombicosidodecahedron].- Unfolding and description of another body [rectified truncated icosahedron].- Unfolding of some other bodies [truncated pentakis dodecahedron].- Unfolding of another irregular body [truncated truncated icosahedron].- Unfolding of some other bodies [great rhombicosidodecahedron].- Unfolding of another irregular body [truncated truncated octahedron].- Unfolding of another irregular body [great rhombicosidodecahedron augmented with pentagonal cupolas].- Unfolding of another irregular body [great rhombicuboctahedron augmented with square cupolas].- Unfolding of another irregular body.- Unfolding of some bodies based on the surfaces of bodies both regular and irregular, and first that which is based on the pyramid [elevated tetrahedron].- Unfolding of a body based on the cube [elevated cube].- Unfolding of a body based on the octagon [elevated octahedron].- Unfolding of a body based on the dodecahedron [elevated dodecahedron].- Unfolding of a body based on the icosahedron [elevated icosahedron].- Unfolding of a body based on an irregular body [elevated cuboctahedron].- Unfolding of a body resting on an underlying body [elevated small rhombicuboctahedron].- Unfolding of another body [elevated icosidodecahedron].- Description of some of the previous bodies with pyramids.- Some easy and quick ways to draw plans and bodies.- How to degrade many circles drawn on the same centre and divided into several parts.- An easy way to degrade without rulers.- Description of the torchio, or mazzocchio.- The perfect description of the mazzocchio.- Part Four, in which will be treated scenographia, that is, the description of scenes.- The manners of scenes.- Description and shading of the Tuscan base.-  Description and shading of the Attic base.- Description and description of the Ionic base.- Description and degradation of columns.- Description and degradation of the Tuscan capital.-  Description and degradation of the Doric capital.- Description and degradation of the Ionic capital.- Description and degradation of the Corinthian capital.- Description of the Doric architrave.- Description of the Ionic architrave and the pediment.- Rules for the heights of the architraves and ways to transpose them from one size to another.- The description and degradation of stairs.- Of arches, vaults and doors.- Plan, elevation and profile of a temple.- Description of the Tragic scene.- Description of the Comic scene.- Description of the Satiric scene.- Part V, in which is set forth a fine and secret part of perspective.- [Distorting images] .- Part VI, which is called Planispherio.- Unfolding, description and degradation of the sphere.- Projection of the sphere onto the plane according to the ancients.- How to make projections of oblique circles.- The projection of the circles of the heights onto the plane.- Part VII, which treats lighting, shadows and colours.- [The importance of light, colour and chiaroscuro].- On the projection of shadows.- Part VIII, in which are treated the measures of the human body.- Measurement of the human body.- The way to describe the plan of the human head.- How to describe heads that are neither in profile nor straight on.- The way to make heads that look either up or down.- Part IX, in which are described many instruments and ways of rendering things in perspective and transporting them.- The author's instrument for making clocks in every climate, on every plane and for every sort of hour.- The use of the universal clock.- Albrecht Dürer's instrument for making perspectives.- Building another instrument by Baldassarre Lanci.- Natural manners of rendering things in perspective.- [Appendix] How with a new instrument it is possible to know the inclination of scarps of walls, according to the invention of Giacomo Castriotto.- Index.