| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Brunelleschi | This artist and architect developed a scientific system of linear perspective for use by visual artists |
| Giotto | This artist pre-dated the development of scientific linear perspective and so the perspective in his paintings was approximate and did not recede to a single vanishing point |
| Massacio | This artist was the first to employ the scientific system of linear perspective in his painting "The Trinity" |
| Mantegna | This artist experimented with unusual viewpoints |
| Ucello | This artist was so in love with perspective that he created a drawing of a fountain that looks as if it could have been done on a computer |
| Durer | This artist was from the North but contributed to the study of perspective and even helped develop multiple vanishing point perspective |
| Leonardo | This artist used the technique of atmospheric perspective and even wrote about the phenomenon in his journal |
| Holbein | This artist created a piece of anamorphic art that has an image of a skull smeared across the bottom. His name means hollow bone |
| Raphael | This "final master" of the Renaissance painted "The School of Athens" showing famous thinkers of antiquity and used himself and other famous artists as models |
| Michelangelo | This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with many carefully shaded figures |
| orthogonal | Perspective (imagined) lines pointing to the vanishing point are referred to as _______ lines |
| horizon | The eye line or eye level in perspective drawing is also called the _________ line. |
| vanishing point | Orthogonal lines converge at the ____________ |
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