Perspective as a geometric tool that launched the Renaissance

Christopher W. Tyler

doi:10.1117/12.387209

2 June 2000 Perspective as a geometric tool that launched the Renaissance

Christopher W. Tyler

Proceedings Volume 3959, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging V; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387209
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Depth representation, in both its geometric and its more generic forms, has often served as an impetus in artistic development through the millennia. The first historical mentions of art, by Plato and contemporaries in the 5th century BC, were provoked by the dramatic use of perspective in the scenery for the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles. One of these innovative scene painters, Agatharchus, even wrote a commentary on his use of convergent perspective, whose effects had inspired several contemporary Greek geometers to analyze the productive transform mathematically.

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Christopher W. Tyler "Perspective as a geometric tool that launched the Renaissance", Proc. SPIE 3959, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging V, (2 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387209

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