The Art and Science of Depiction -- Frédo Durand

Linear Perspective

Monday, April 23. 2001

Overview

Basic principles of linear perspective. Linear perspective through Renaissance: Giotto, Bruneleschi, Alberti, de la Francesca, Leonardo, Durer. Perspective devices.

Slides of the lecture

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Assignments for Monday April 30

Reading Chapters 8 & 9 of Solso's Cognition and the Visual Arts Write a little summary or comment (1/2 page each). Project subject

Further Reading

The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, Martin Kemp, Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300052413, 1992 The Poetics of Perspective, James Elkins, Cornell Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801483794, 1996 Eyewitness: Perspective, Alison Cole, DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789455854, 2000 Art and Representation, New Principles in the Analysis of Pictures, John Willats, Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN:0691087377, 1997 Optics, Painting and Photography, Maurice Henri Leonard Pirenne, Cambridge Univ Pr., 1970 Leonardo on Painting : An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci With a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career As an Artist, Martin Kemp , Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300045093, 1989 On Painting, Leon Battista Alberti, Penguin USA; ISBN: 0140433317, reprint, 1991.

Related links

The Renaissance -- A Brief Introduction Investigating the Renaissance Renaissance (an Annenberg/CPB Exhibit) Renaissance Art and Mathematical Perspective The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective