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A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature and its applicability to art

Herdman, William Gawin · 1853 · John Weale & Co. · 8 pictures

A treatise by William Gawin Herdman, published in London by John Weale & Co. in 1853, setting out a theory of curvilinear perspective for artists and students of drawing. The pictures are geometric line diagrams of converging vanishing points, arcs and radiating construction lines, which a designer could use as a reference for curved or distorted spatial layouts.

Kunsttheorie + kunstästhetik + kunstphilosophie · Künstlerische techniken + künstlerische methoden · Neunzehntes jahrhundert n. chr · Perspektive (kunst) · Perspektive (zeichenkunst) · Sehen (sinnesphysiologie)

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