Before the invention of linear perspective, paintings looked a bit strange. If you wanted somebody to look like they were behind someone else, you sort of painted them on top of somebody else.

The animals sometimes seem trapped between discrete planar zones, foreshortened weirdly. But this is another fascinating early recognition of the drama and narrative power that a good handling of ...

Matthew Tierney’s Bryan Toth show was the artist’s first solo exhibition. Remarkably, however, Tierney has already cultivated an influential group of collectors, has seen his work placed ...

The Renaissance wasn’t just a period of rebirth—it was a full-blown creative revolution. Artists were no longer just painting ...

Linear perspective is the overarching method of representing 3D objects on a 2D plane, just like how games show up on your gaming monitor. It encompasses the one, two, and three point perspectives ...

According to art historian Giorgio Vasari, the architect and inventor Filippo Brunelleschi sometime between 1415 and 1420 developed the linear perspective system while experimenting with the ...

As a young artist, Leonardo da Vinci helped advance the art of single-point linear perspective, which brought the illusion of depth to a two-dimensional work.

The optics of linear perspective had merged with images made using camera obscuras and concave mirrors. “Where is the evidence?”, I asked him. “The pictures are the evidence”, Hockney replied.

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