The Psychology Of Perspective And Renaissance Art PDF Download

This PhD dissertation is about western Art, and especially about "the perspective in the Italian Renaissance Painting. Linear perspective is a mathematical system used to create the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface. To properly use the linear perspective a painter has to imagine the canvas as an "open window" through which he sees the subject of the painting. In this open window it is necessary to draw straight lines to represent the horizon, divide the painting with different horizontal lines and fix the vanishing point. The vanishing point is usually located near the center of the horizon. From this point it is necessary to draw the so-called "visual rays" that connect the viewer's eye with the point in the distance. These lines helped artists find the prospective points of the canvas thanks to their intersection with the horizontal lines. Generally, an artist use visual rays to align the edges of the walls and flooring.After Brunelleschi and Alberti's studies, almost every artist in Florence and Italy tried to represent three-dimensional objects using the geometric perspective in their paintings. Piero De La Francesca also wrote about this artistic technique (De Prospectiva Pingendi) in his "Della Pittura" in 1470. If Alberti's studies limited to provide a general basis for perspective, Della Francesca covered solids in any area of the image surface and used many illustrated figures to explain the mathematical concepts. The development of perspective by Renaissance artists led in the later centuries to the development of algebraic and analytic geometry, relativity and quantum mechanics.