Linear perspective

Depicting depth through orthogonals converging toward one or more vanishing points; often refers to the system developed in the Italian Renaissance.

Basics Works of Art

Linear perspective

Depicting depth through orthogonals converging toward one or more vanishing points; often refers to the system developed in the Italian Renaissance.

Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

Early applications of linear perspective

How one-point linear perspective works

Linear perspective explained

Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi’s Experiment

Space

Works of Art

Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child with Saints, Angels, and Federico da Montefeltro

1472–74

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas

1656

Jacopo Tintoretto, The Removal of the Body of Saint Mark

1562–66

Donatello, The Miracle of the Mule

1446–50

Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin

c. 1435–40

Room M of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale

c. 50–40 B.C.E.

Vittore Carpaccio, Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Rialto Bridge

c. 1496

The carpet and the globe: Holbein’s The Ambassadors reframed

1533

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