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  2. Filippo Brunelleschi - Wikipedia

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    Following the rules of perspective studied by Brunelleschi and the others, artists could paint imaginary landscapes and scenes with accurate three-dimensional perspective and realism. The most important treatise on painting of the Renaissance, Della Pittura libri tre by Alberti, with a description of Brunelleschi's experiment, was published in ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Florentine painting - Wikipedia

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    Another painting exists, a cityscape, by an unknown artist, perhaps Piero della Francesca, that demonstrates the sort of experiment that Brunelleschi had been making. From this time linear perspective was understood and regularly employed, such as by Perugino in his Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter in the Sistine Chapel. [1]

  5. Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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    Another painting exists, a cityscape, by an unknown artist, perhaps Piero della Francesca, that demonstrates the sort of experiment that Brunelleschi had been making. From this time linear perspective was understood and regularly employed, such as by Perugino in his Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter (1481–82) in the Sistine Chapel. [12]

  6. Florentine Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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    In the bas-relief Saint George Freeing the Princess, at the foot of the tabernacle, Donatello sculpted one of the earliest examples of stiacciato and one of the earliest representations of central linear perspective. [40] Unlike Brunelleschi, whose perspective was a means of fixing spatiality a posteriori, Donatello placed the vanishing point ...

  7. Perspective distortion - Wikipedia

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    The formalization of linear perspective in Renaissance Europe marked a turning point in the history of perspective distortion. Pioneered by figures like Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti , linear perspective provided a systematic approach to creating the illusion of depth on flat surfaces.

  8. Holy Trinity (Masaccio) - Wikipedia

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    Brunelleschi's experiments in linear perspective likely were the inspiration for the perspectival construction of the painting. [4] Fra' Alessio's involvement has been posited more on the matter of the appropriate depiction of the Holy Trinity , according to the preferences and sensibilities of the Dominican order .

  9. Perspectivity - Wikipedia

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    A perspectivity: ′ ′ ′ ′, In projective geometry the points of a line are called a projective range, and the set of lines in a plane on a point is called a pencil.. Given two lines and in a projective plane and a point P of that plane on neither line, the bijective mapping between the points of the range of and the range of determined by the lines of the pencil on P is called a ...