Perspective and Two Dimensional Space

Giotto
Ognissanti Madonna c1310
Cimabue
Madonna Enthroned c1280

 

 Giotto and Pupils, St. Francis Driving out the Demons of Arezzo 
Assisi, Italy c. 1305 Fresco


 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

Linear Perspective

Demonstration of 1 point and 2 point perspectives


 


 
 
 


Leonardo, The Last Supper, 1495
Italian Renaissance


 


 
 
 


Gustave Caillebotte, Paris a Rainy Day, 1877, Chicago Art Institute, French Impressionism
 
 



sfumato
aerial perspective
atmospheric perspective

Leonardo, Virgin and St. Anne with the 
Christ Child.1510 Oil on wood, 168,5 x 130 cm 
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Eric Joyner, Untitled 2006
Pop Visionary, Low Brow, Outsider Artist

 Albrecht Durer, 
"Alberti's Veil" c1500


How squaring works:
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Albrecht Durer, Alberti's Veil c1500
Andrea Mantegna, 
The Dead Christ, c1490-1501, 
tempera on canvas 20"x31"
Mantegna, Dead Christ 1501

 
 
Andrea Mantegna, 
The Dead Christ, c1490-1501, 
tempera on canvas 20"x31" 

foreshortening

The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, 
by Leo Steinberg

 
 

 

Eric Joyner, The Foolish Challenger 2006


Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water (Architectural Rendering) 1936
 
 
 
 


JOHN FREDERICK PETO 1854-1907
Book, Mug, Candlestick and Pipe, c. 1890s
Oil on canvas, 12 1/4 X 16" (31.12 x 40.64 cm.)



M.C. Escher

 



 

Classic Superman 1939
Alex Ross, Superman 1999

Compare and Contrast
Which ones are being used?
linear perspective
atmospheric perspective
aerial perspective
sfumato
chiaroscuro