1. PERSPECTIVE

2. Linear Perspective – the illusion that an image has depth and 3-dimensional space (volume)

3. The dawn of perspective

4. Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned, 1280-90
NO PERSPECTIVE
flat pictorial space similar to Ancient & Byzantine works
Note color oppositions and alternation in Angel wings

5. GIOTTO Madonna in Glory c. 1311 Tempera on panel 128 x 90 1/2 in.
suggestions of PERSPECTIVE in a GOTHIC ERA work; PERSPECTIVE is a major development of the RENAISSANCE
(key words in BOLD)

6. TRICKS/TECHNIQUES OVERLAPPING (ORDER) RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES
VERTICAL PLACEMENT
ATMOSPHERIC
LIGHT
LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

7. VERTICAL PLACEMENT & OVERLAPPING
INTERPRETED AS 3 RECTANGLES

8. NOT

9. RELATIVE SIZE

10. SASSETTA The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul about 1440 Wood
Italian painter, Sienese school (b. 1394, Siena, d. 1450, Siena)
National Gallery of Art, Washington

11. TRICKS/TECHNIQUES OVERLAPPING (ORDER) RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES
VERTICAL PLACEMENT
ATMOSPHERIC
LIGHT
LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

12. Atmospheric Imitation of atmospheric effects:
hues more bluish & more pale
outlines less precise
small details lost
color contrasts muted

13. David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1971

14. TRICKS/TECHNIQUES OVERLAPPING (ORDER) RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES
VERTICAL PLACEMENT
ATMOSPHERIC
LIGHT
LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

15. ONE POINT PERSPECTIVE
Vanishing point

16. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 72 1/2 in

17. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 72 1/2 in

18. 2 Point Perspective
V.P.
Street in Paris in the Rain (1877), was painted by French artist, Gustave Caillebotte ( )