Abstract: Leon Battista Alberti was the first to present a perspective construction in writing. He did so in 1435 in his De pictura, in which he also introduced a model for perspective representation. Alberti’s own way of expressing his definition is described in chapter II, but here I find it convenient to translate his definition into modern terms (figure I.1): Given a picture plane π and an eye point O, an object behind π is depicted upon it by mapping each point A in the object upon the point A i in which the line OA cuts the surface π. This is the same as saying that the object is mapped upon π by a perspective or central projection with its centre in O.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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