1. Linear Perspective
Lecturer: Mark Parkin

2. A & O Aims; to explore the origins and methods of linear perspective
Objectives; identify the origins of Perspective
Investigate a one, two & three point perspective
To understand the method of how to draw a shadow using linear perspective.

3. Linear Perspective
The School of Athens by Raphael (1505), a fine example of architectural perspective with a central vanishing point, marking the high point of the classical Renaissance.
Latin word: Perspecta
To look through
Definition; A form of perspective in drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as converging so as to give the illusion of depth and distance. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011)

4. Linear Perspective-Origin
Perspective evolved from the architectural drawings of Fillippo Brunelleschi & Leone Battista Alberti in Florence, Italy during the early Renaissance.
Brunelleschi created two panels that were of pictorial views of Florence which had an important impact on art theory in the areas of architecture & Fine Art.
Alberti was a painter, musician & architect and designed some of the most classical buildings of the 15th Century and his first book on painting covered art theory & technique.

5. Linear Perspective-Origin
Early Renaissance
Fillipo di ser Brunelesco di Lippo
Born:1377
Florence, Italy
Died: April 15/1446
Architect, sculptor, mechanical engineer
Notable work
Dome of Santa da Maria del Fiore

6. Linear Perspective-Origin
Early Renaissance
Brunelleschi was one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance. He is generally well known for developing a technique for linear perspective in art and for building the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
Heavily dependent on mirrors and geometry, to "reinforce Christian spiritual reality", his formulation of linear perspective governed pictorial depiction of space until the late 19th century.

7. Linear Perspective-Origin
Dome of Santa da Maria del Fiore, Florence Italy
The Cathedral was on Easter Sunday, 1436 and is the world’s largest brick dome. Weighing 37,000 tons and using more than 4,000,000 bricks, Brunelleschi's dome was the greatest architectural feat in the Western world.

8. Linear Perspective-Origin

9. Linear Perspective-Origin
Alberti was a painter, musician & architect and designed some of the most notable classical buildings of the 15th Century and his first book on painting covered art theory & technique.

10. Linear Perspective-Origin
Leon Battista Alberti was also known as Battista Alberti, Leo Battista Alberti, Leone Battista Alberti.
He was known for pursuing philosophical, artistic, scientific and athletic endeavours in a successful attempt to become a true "Renaissance Man."
He was an architect, an artist, a cleric, a writer, a philosopher, mathematician, making him one of the most well-rounded thinkers of his age.

11. Linear Perspective One Point Perspective
Vanishing Point
Convergence Lines

12. Linear Perspective One Point Perspective
Vanishing Point
Visible Horizon
True Horizon
Convergence Lines

13. Linear Perspective Two Point Perspective

14. Linear Perspective Two Point Perspective
True Horizon
Vanishing Point No:1
Vanishing Point No: 2
Building
Convergence Lines

15. Linear Perspective Three Point Perspective
VP No: 3
True Horizon
Building
VP No:1
VP No: 2
Convergence Lines

16. Shadows in Perspective
Shadow casting
One Vanishing Point

17. Shadows in Perspective

18. Shadows in Perspective
Convergence Lines from light source
True Horizon
Shadow vanishing point

19. Differentiated Planes
Linear Perspective
Differentiated Planes
Multiple
Vanishing Points
Buildings
Road

20. Differentiated Planes
Linear Perspective
Differentiated Planes
True Horizon
Vanishing Points
Eye level

21. Linear Perspective Excercise 1
Using a one-point perspective replicate this drawing labeling the vanishing point, convergence lines and true horizon.

22. Linear Perspective Shadows-Excercise 2
Solar VP
1. Using linear perspective replicate this drawing and place the shadow in the correct position behind the building.
2.Label the vanishing points, convergence lines and true horizon.
3. Draw the interior or exterior of a building labeling vanishing points and convergence lines.

23. Summary
We have examined the origin and some of the fundamental methods of perspective Identified the origins of Perspective.
We have Identified the methodology of one, two & three point perspective.
Examined the method of drawing a cube and shadow using a two point perspective.

24. End of Presentation
“A LAZY ARTIST NEVER CREATES A MASTERPIECE”