Writer: Mojan Kavosh

On Measurement: A Survey of Florence

On Measurement: A Survey of Florence

Mojan Kavosh

The following text is an extract from a longer essay entitled ‘De re mensura: Surveying Practice in Quattrocento Painting’—which the author completed at the Warburg Institute in the autumn of 2025—looking at Renaissance perspective painting to consider how practices of surveying informed the development of perspective as an artistic and intellectual pursuit. *… Read More