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The Art and Science of Depiction
Fredo DurandMIT- Lab for Computer Science
Linear Perspective
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Perspective 2
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Perspective 3
Assignments for Monday 30.• Solso Cognition and the Visual Arts
– Chapter 8 & 9
• Final project– Firm subject
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Perspective 4
Plan of the next sessions• Drawing and projection
• Denotation• Tone & color
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Perspective 5
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 6
Perspective• Does linear perspective “occur” in nature
– E.g. we “experience” foreshortening
• Perspective or perspectives?
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Perspective 7
Pictorial depth cues• Occlusion
• Size• Position relative to the horizon
• Convergence of parallels, linear perspective
• Shading, shadow• Texture gradient
• Aerial perspective
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Perspective 8
Introduction to Perspective• Importance of the single viewpoint
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Perspective 9
Linear Perspective• Image as a window
• St Jerome In His StudyAntonello da Messina 1475
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Perspective 10
Some accompanying concepts• Viewpoint
• Foreshortening• Vanishing point
• Very linked to architectural spaces
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Perspective 11
Primary/secondary geometry• Primary geometry
– Description in 3D object-space
• Secondary geometry– Description in 2D image-space
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Perspective 12
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 13
Early attempts• St John the Baptist Retiring to the Desert
Giovanni di Paolo 1454
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Perspective 14
Early attempts• Giotto, 1297-1299
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Perspective 15
Early attempts• Lorenzetti 1337-1340
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Perspective 16
Early attempts• Lorenzetti 1337-1340
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Perspective 17
Giotto’s rules• Lines and planes above eye level incline
downwards when they move away
• Below eye level upwards when they move away• Lines to the left incline inwards to the right
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Perspective 18
Giotto• Confirmation of the Rule of St Francis 1325
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Perspective 19
Giotto• Confirmation of the Rule of St Francis 1325
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Perspective 20
Early attempts• Pietro Lorenzetti,
Birth of the Virgin 1342
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Perspective 21
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 22
Bruneleschi’s experiments, 1413• Existing buildings
• Measurement, surveying• Single viewpoint
• First scientific mimesis
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Perspective 23
Bruneleschi’s experiment, 1413
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Perspective 24
Bruneleschi’s second experiment• Cut out
• Note that this is 2-point perspective
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Perspective 25
Limitations• Existing buildings
• Requires measurement
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Perspective 26
Masaccio, The Trinity, 1427• The oldest perspective
painting
• Probably measurement• Maybe helped
by Bruneleschi
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Perspective 27
Masaccio, The Trinity, 1427• The oldest perspective
painting
• Santa Maria Novella (Florence)
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Perspective 28
Masaccio, The Trinity, 1427• The oldest perspective
painting
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Perspective 29
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 30
Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting• 1435
• Intersections of pyramids with image surface
• Proportional triangles
• Use side view for foreshortening
• Check with diagonal• Use pavement as reference
• Center = prince of rays
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Perspective 31
Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting• Paolo Uccello, The Selling of the Host, 1468
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Perspective 32
Legitimate construction• Carlo Criveli
Annunciation 1486
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Perspective 33
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 34
Piero de la Francesca• De Prospectiva Pingendi, 1474
(On the perspective of painting)
• Ratios of distance and size• Use plan and elevation view
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Perspective 35
Piero de la Francesca• Use plan and
elevation view
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Perspective 36
Piero de la Francesca• De Prospectiva Pingendi, 1474
(On the perspective of painting)
• Ratios of distance and size• Use plan and elevation view
• Deformation of square – Angle of view less than 90º
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Perspective 37
Piero de la Francesca• Flagellation of Christ, 1460
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Perspective 38
Piero de la Francesca• Invention of the true cross 1452-59
• “wrong perspective on the left
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Perspective 39
Piero de la Francesca• Invention of the true cross 1452-59
• “wrong perspective on the left
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Perspective 40
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 41
Leonardo & perspective• Techniques of artists’ perspective in theory and
practice
• Geometry of visual rays• Devices and instruments
• Optics and the eye
• Curiosities of vision (e.g. anamorphosis)• Apparent contradictions
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Perspective 42
Leonardo• Last Supper, 1497
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Perspective 43
Leonardo• Last Supper, 1497
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Perspective 44
Leonardo & contradictions• Wide angle vision
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Perspective 45
Leonardo & contradictions• Wide angle vision
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Perspective 46
Leonardo & contradictions• Wide angle vision
• Lateral recession
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Perspective 47
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 48
Dürer• Traveled to Italy
• Mainly influenced by de la Francesca• Instruction in
Measurement withCompass and Ruler in Lines, Planes and Solid Bodies, 1525
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Perspective 49
Dürer• St Jerome in his
Study 1514
• Very off-center• Note the verticals
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Perspective 50
Dürer• The artist’s
glass
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Perspective 51
Dürer• The draftsman's net
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Perspective 52
Dürer• Jacob de Keyser's invention
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Perspective 53
Dürer• Dürer’s device
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Perspective 54
Conclusions about Renaissance• Different techniques, refinement
• Measurement• Mainly central perspective
• No notion of infinity, no vanishing point
• Spiritual notion of mathematical harmony
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Perspective 55
After Renaissance• 17th
– Vanishing point
– Abstraction– Desargues, Descartes
• Flourished until 19th
• 20th century– Come-back for computer graphics and computer
vision
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Perspective 56
After Renaissance• Thomas Malton
A Complete Treatise on Perspective, 1779
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Perspective 57
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 58
Gadgets• Camera obscura
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Perspective 59
Vermeer 1660• Camera obscura
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Perspective 60
Gadgets• Baldassare Lanci’s universal instrument for
surveying and perspective 1557
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Gadgets• Camera Lucida
• E.g. Talbot
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Perspective 62
Perspective grids
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Perspective 63
Plan• Intro to perspective
• History of Renaissance perspective– Early attempts– Bruneleschi
– Alberti– De la Francesca– Leonardo– Dürer
• Gadgets
• Distortion issues
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Perspective 64
Leonardo & contradictions• Wide angle vision
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Perspective 65
Leonardo & contradictions• Wide angle vision
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Perspective 66
Leonardo & contradictions• Wide angle vision
• Lateral recession
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Perspective 67
Perspective distortion• The sphere is projected
as an ellipse
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Perspective 68
Perspective distortion• The sphere is projected
as an ellipse