Preface.
1. The Object, the Eye and the Picture
2. A Door is Opened
3. A Truly Marvellous Feat
4. Leonardo’s Window
5. Perspective Goes North
6. Grand Illusions
7. Textbooks and Tools
8. Vedute e Cappricci
9. Topographers
10. Nineteenth-century Perspectors
11. Twentieth-century Perspectors
12. Architecture in Natural Perspective
13. Predicting Buildings
14. Artful Aids
15. Landscape in Perspective
16. Perspective Out of Favour
17. Perspective, Optics and Photography
18. Motion Perspective. Appendix A: Alternatives to Perspective. Appendix B: Perspective on the Drawing Board. Appendix C: Shades and Shadows. Appendix D: Computer-drawn Perspective. Appendix E: Spherical Perspective. Bibliography. Illustrations: Sources and Acknowledgements. Index.