From Lecture: Fooling the Eye - Brunelleschi, Alberti & The Invention of Linear Perspective

Filippo Brunelleschi

-was the Italian sculptor and architect who demonstrated the

principles of perspective through optics.

-painted a picture of the Florentine Baptistery on the surface of a

small mirror, right on top of its own reflection.

Leon Batista Alberti

-was an architect and writer who first formulates rules that artists could follow to create perspectival work.

-Showed how a perspective “checkerboard pavement”

Braccia

unit of measure- forearm length

Ground Line

the bottom line of the picture plane of a drawing in linear perspective.

Vanishing point

the point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge.

Orthogonals

imaginary lines which are parallel to the ground plane and the line of sight of the viewer.

Horizon line

a physical/visual boundary where sky separates from land or water.

• The artist's last name

• The complete title of the artwork

• The artwork's style/movement: Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, Fauve, or Cubist

Brunelleschi, Brunelleschi’s Santo Spirito, Renaissance