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  2. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

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    The figure represents the Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 CE) making offerings to Egyptian Gods, Dendera Temple complex, Egypt. [1] An artistic canon of body proportions (or aesthetic canon of proportion), in the sphere of visual arts, is a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.

  3. Picture plane - Wikipedia

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    In painting, photography, graphical perspective and descriptive geometry, a picture plane is an image plane located between the "eye point" (or oculus) and the object being viewed and is usually coextensive to the material surface of the work. It is ordinarily a vertical plane perpendicular to the sightline to the object of interest.

  4. Reverse perspective - Wikipedia

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    Reverse perspective, also called inverse perspective, [1] inverted perspective, [2] divergent perspective, [3] [4] or Byzantine perspective, [5] is a form of perspective drawing where the objects depicted in a scene are placed between the projective point and the viewing plane.

  5. Figure painting - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.

  6. Repoussoir - Wikipedia

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    The Four Philosophers (c. 1615.Oil on panel; 167 x 143 cm, Pitti Palace, Florence).In his friendship portrait of himself, his brother Philip Rubens, Justus Lipsius and Jan van den Wouwer (left to right), the painter Rubens's self-portrait on the left is an example of a figural repoussoir that is further accentuated by the flowing red curtain.

  7. Flatness (art) - Wikipedia

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    The valorization of flatness led to a number of art movements, including minimalism and post-painterly abstractionism. [1] [2] Modernism of the arts happened during the second half of the 19th century and extended into most of the 20th. This period of art is identified by art forms consisting of an image on a flat two-dimensional surface.

  8. Axonometric projection - Wikipedia

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    Classification of Axonometric projection and some 3D projections "Axonometry" means "to measure along the axes". In German literature, axonometry is based on Pohlke's theorem, such that the scope of axonometric projection could encompass every type of parallel projection, including not only orthographic projection (and multiview projection), but also oblique projection.

  9. Multiview orthographic projection - Wikipedia

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    Fig.1: Pictorial of the imaginary object that the technician wishes to image. Fig.2: The object is imagined behind a vertical plane of projection. The angled corner of the plane of projection is addressed later. Fig.3: Projectors emanate parallel from all points of the object, perpendicular to the plane of projection.