66 Perspective
The three-dimensional representation of an image or space.
The development of a method of linear perspective was critical to the advancement of art and design practices. In essence, it was a technique to render objects relative to the space they occupy. Although credit is typically given to architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377—1446), the discovery of the vanishing point (or points) to which parallel lines converge can also be traced back to the primitive use of stacking and layering, the oblique projections of early Chinese illustrations (particularly the dengjia toushi method), and Japanese art. These explorations led to a revolution in the representational art of the Renaissance, and ...
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