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  2. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Linear or point-projection perspective (from Latin perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. [ citation needed ] [ dubious – discuss ] Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by ...

  3. The Geometry of an Art - Wikipedia

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    The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge is a book in the history of mathematics, on the mathematics of graphical perspective. It was written by Kirsti Andersen , and published in 2007 by Springer-Verlag in their book series Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical ...

  4. De pictura - Wikipedia

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    As an artist, architect, poet and philosopher, he revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition ...

  5. Perspective - Wikipedia

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    Perspective (graphical), representing the effects of visual perspective in graphic arts; Aerial perspective, the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance; Perspective distortion (photography), the way that viewing a picture from the wrong position gives a perceived distortion

  6. Perspectivity - Wikipedia

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    This composition is a bijective map of the points of S 2 onto itself which preserves collinear points and is called a perspective collineation (central collineation in more modern terminology). [7] Let φ be a perspective collineation of S 2. Each point of the line of intersection of S 2 and T 2 will be fixed by φ and this line is called the ...

  7. De prospectiva pingendi - Wikipedia

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    De prospectiva pingendi (On the Perspective of Painting) is the earliest and only pre-1500 Renaissance treatise solely devoted to the subject of perspective. [1] It was written by the Italian master Piero della Francesca in the mid-1470s to 1480s, [ 2 ] and possibly by about 1474. [ 3 ]

  8. Hockney–Falco thesis - Wikipedia

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    The hypothesis that technology was used in the production of Renaissance Art was not much in dispute in early studies and literature. [4]In his treatise on perspective, early Baroque painter Cigoli (1559 – 1613) expressed his belief that a more likely explanation of the origin of painting lies in people conserving the image of the camera obscura by applying colours and tracing the contours ...

  9. Naïve art - Wikipedia

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    Henri Rousseau's The Repast of the Lion (circa 1907), is an example of naïve art. Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). [1]