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Sources
These are the only books I have that deal with the subject of armatures in two-dimensional art:
Bouleau, Charles.
The Painter's Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art
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New York: Hacker Art Books, 1980. See my footnote on the Conclusions page.
Elam, Kimberly.
Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
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New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011. See the Rabatment page.
There are many books on perspective and pictorial space.
I have these:
Alberti, Leon Battista.
On Painting.
Translated by Cecil Grayson.
London: Penguin Books, 2004.
Blatt, Sidney J., and E. S. Blatt.
Continuity and Change in Art: The Development of Modes of Representation
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Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984.
Edgerton, Samuel Y., Jr.
The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry
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Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Edgerton, Samuel Y., Jr.
The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective
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New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Ivins, William M., Jr.
Art & Geometry: A Study in Space Intuitions
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New York: Dover, 2011.
Panofsky, Erwin.
Perspective as Symbolic Form
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Translated by Christopher S. Wood.
New York: Zone Books, 1997.
I also have books on sacred geometry, which I won't bother to list.
As for journal articles on the geometry of two-dimensional art that aren't about perspective or Celtic design, I don't think I've ever found any.
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