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Pathways of Sight

LINEAR PERSPECTIVE (also called vanishing-point perspective) children. It is also distinguished from aerial perspective (see
is a simple device for calculating the relative size of things in pp. 206-07). All forms of perspective are of equal value.
pictorial space. We use it to structure illusions of depth. It
can be applied to any subject, but is most easily seen and Here Leonardo provides a superb example of a single
understood in pictures of buildings and interiors. Invented by vanishing point. Piranesi an example of two, and age eight,
Italian artist and architect Brunelleschi in 1413 (late in the I contribute the child's perspective. Sometimes shared with
history of art), linear perspective is distinct from more ancient Naive artists, this perspective is often an imagined bird's-eye
systems practiced in the East, and those of Naive artists and view in which details are mapped according to logic and
importance rather than how they might appear in real life.

LEONARDO DA VINCI Single-point perspective Tie a thread to a pin. Press the pin into Leonardo's Study of Perspective for the
One of the greatest artists, scientists, inventors, and thinkers vanishing point, found at the center of all converging lines. Pull the thread
ever to have lived. In his notebooks, Leonardo recorded taut and rotate it slowly above the drawing. See how the thread corresponds Adoration of the Magi
constant streams of ideas, observations, and inventions— to each converging line. Note how architectural features conform to lines and
essential reading for inquiring minds. how human figures diminish in size toward thevanishingpoint. 1481
61/2x111/2in (165 x 290 mm)

LEONARDO DA VINCI