The art of representing a three dimensional
space on a flat surface.
Early artists nave been struggling with perspective for a long time. Which
figure is further away, the girl under the legs or the big guy. Why?
Early Medieval art looked flat and awkward. They couldn’t create the illusion of
depth using perspective correct.
They didn’t get it.
In 1435, Alberti gave us the first theory of what we now call perspective in his
book, On Painting. The impact was enormous.
In 1435, Alberti gave us the first theory of what we now call perspective in his
book, On Painting. The impact was enormous.
Early
attempts at
Perspective
were not
entirely
successful.
The Annunciation
Duccio (1310)
Renaissance:1420 – 1520 (1600)
Renaissance: 1498
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper 1498 - 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft.)
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Study for the Adoration of the Magi (1481)
Oculus in the Camera Picta
Andrea Mantegna (1474)
Early attempts at Perspective were not completely successful.
Anamorphic portrait of Edward the 6th
Guillaume Scrots 1546
4 inches wide
The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
1533
Late Renaissance Artists
``Renaissance''--meaning
``rebirth''--is given
to a period of broad cultural achievement
spanning three centuries, the fourteenth
through to the sixteenth centuries.
One of the main features of art during the
Renaissance were:
Foreshortening – portraying
an object with the apparent shortening
due to visual perspective.
Foreshortening
Modern 3D Perspective