A Renaissance-Era Textbook With Gorgeous Illustrations For Teaching Drawing
These illustrations are from the French monk Jean François Niceron’s magnum opus La Perspective Curieuse(The Strange Perspective), first published in 1638. Therein, he offers artists and architects lessons on catoptrics (the study of reflective phenomena) and anamorphosis (the study of images projected on curved surfaces or viewable only from certain points-of-view). With 42 mind-bending copper plate engravings, La Perspective Curieuse takes readers on a tour of various orthographic projections, and even teaches prospective fresco-painters how to make figures on vaulted ceilings seem undistorted.
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