1. The art of representing a three dimensional space on a flat surface.

2. Early artists nave been struggling with perspective for a long time. Which figure is further away, the girl under the legs or the big guy. Why?

4. Early Medieval art looked flat and awkward. They couldn’t create the illusion of depth using perspective correct.

5. They didn’t get it.

6. In 1435, Alberti gave us the first theory of what we now call perspective in his book, On Painting. The impact was enormous.

7. In 1435, Alberti gave us the first theory of what we now call perspective in his book, On Painting. The impact was enormous.

8. The Annunciation Duccio (1310) Early attempts at Perspective were not entirely successful.

9. Renaissance:1420 – 1520 (1600)

10. Renaissance: 1498 Leonardo da Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper 1498 - 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft.)

11. Leonardo da Vinci Study for the Adoration of the Magi (1481)

13. Oculus in the Camera Picta Andrea Mantegna (1474)

14. Early attempts at Perspective were not completely successful. The Ambassadors Hans Holbein the Younger 1533 Anamorphic portrait of Edward the 6 th Guillaume Scrots 1546 4 inches wide

15. Late Renaissance Artists

16. `` Renaissance''--meaning ``rebirth''--is given to a period of broad cultural achievement spanning three centuries, the fourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries. One of the main features of art during the Renaissance were: Foreshortening Foreshortening – portraying an object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.

18. Foreshortening

19. Modern 3D Perspective