And we'll see how linear perspective changed art — and also became a trap. What is linear perspective? Basically, it's a set of lines that trick your eye into thinking that something that's 2 ...

Linear perspective is so fundamental to our conception of "realistic" art, that we only notice it when it's absent or has failed. Vittore Crivelli, St Catherine of Alexandria (1490) (left), and Carlo ...

The current standard of linear perspective was developed by architect, poet, and humanist, Leon Battista Alberti. He's widely considered the father of Early Renaissance in the art world ...

As a young artist, Leonardo da Vinci helped advance the art of single-point linear perspective, which brought the illusion of depth to a two-dimensional work. Two of his first independent works as ...

Fashion, philosophy, art: these things are all connected ... “That was my whole idea with these paintings was to do away with linear perspective.” The majority of the paintings in the show ...

Representation of space through linear perspective drawing (Renaissance perspective) is the drawn version of Euclid’s geometric space (later codified and made calculable by Descartes and concretized ...

Before this, however, it was Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi who, in the 1400s, discovered linear perspective as a system of drawing and thus brought science and art in a collision that ...