De prospectiva pingendi

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De prospectiva pingendi is a foundational Renaissance treatise on the mathematical principles of linear perspective in painting, traditionally attributed to Piero della Francesca.

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instanceOf Renaissance treatise
art treatise
theoretical work on perspective
aim to provide rules for accurate perspective in painting
associatedWith Renaissance scientific approach to art
Urbino court culture
author Piero della Francesca NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Italy
discipline history of art
history of mathematics
documentType manuscript
field art
geometry
optics
focusesOn application of Euclidean geometry to art
construction of perspective in painting
geometric methods for representing three-dimensional space
genre art theory
mathematical treatise
hasSubject foreshortening
orthogonals and transversals in perspective grids
proportions of figures in space
vanishing points
historicalContext early development of linear perspective in Renaissance Italy
influenced Renaissance painting
later treatises on perspective
influencedBy Euclidean geometry NERFINISHED
Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
language Latin
mainSubject linear perspective
mathematics of perspective
painting
movement Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED
period 15th century
relatedWork De divina proportione NERFINISHED
De pictura NERFINISHED
significance foundational work on mathematical perspective in art
structure divided into books or sections
studiedIn art history
history of perspective
titleTranslation On the Perspective of Painting NERFINISHED
traditionalAttribution Piero della Francesca NERFINISHED
uses diagrams
geometric constructions

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