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2. 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 ]

3. Catholic art - Wikipedia

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   Catholic art is art produced by or for members of the Catholic Church. This includes visual art ( iconography ), sculpture , decorative arts , applied arts , and architecture . In a broader sense, Catholic music and other art may be included as well.

4. Religious images in Christian theology - Wikipedia

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   Throughout the ages, art has been a part of the church. God designed the temple, employing artisans to create its beautiful and ornate workmanship. Churches of old included stained-glass windows created to illustrate God’s word, and even the most simple country churches often include beautiful wooden crosses and podiums.

5. Christian art - Wikipedia

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   In Catholic countries, production of religious art continued, and increased during the Counter-Reformation, but Catholic art was brought under much tighter control by the church hierarchy than had been the case before. From the 18th century the number of religious works produced by leading artists declined sharply, though important commissions ...

6. De pictura - Wikipedia

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   The treatise contained an analysis of all the techniques and painting theories known at the time, in this surpassing medieval works such as The book of Art by Cennino Cennini (1390). De pictura also includes the first description of linear geometric perspective around 1416; Alberti credited the discovery to Brunelleschi , and dedicated the 1435 ...

7. Anamorphosis - Wikipedia

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   Anamorphic street art by Manfred Stader. While not as widespread in contemporary art, anamorphosis as a technique has been used by contemporary artists in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, film and video, digital art and games, holography, [1] street art and installation. The latter two art forms are largely practised in public ...

8. Two-alarm fire tears through NYC building as 10 rushed to ...

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   A raging two-alarm fire left 15 people injured in an Upper Manhattan apartment building Tuesday morning, reports say. The blaze tore through the first floor of a six-story building West 204th ...

9. 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 ...