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Two Point Perspective

Albrecht Durer- It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught (possibly by the mathematician Luca Pacioli) the principles of linear perspective.  Here we have an illustration from a work published in 1535 based on or possibly a reprint of Unterweysung des Messung .

Dürer’s illustration shows apparatus for drawing a classic set-piece, a foreshortened lute. A pointer is attached to a thread running through a pulley on the wall. The thread represents a ray of light passing through the picture plane to the theoretical eye-point denoted by the pulley. As one man fixes key points on the lute, his assistant records the vertical and horizontal co-ordinates of the thread as it passes through the frame, and plots each new point to create a drawing.

One Point Perspective

While still in the early phase of his architectural career (probably c. 1410–15), Brunelleschi rediscovered the principles of linear-perspective construction known to the Greeks and Romans but buried along with many other aspects of ancient civilization during the European Middle Ages.  Brunelleschi had understood the concept of a single vanishing point, toward which all parallel lines drawn on the same plane appear to converge, and the principle of the relationship between distance and the diminution of objects as they appear to recede in space. 

Boxes Drawn in one point perspective.

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Symbols and Icons

Icon

1. a graphic symbol on a computer display screen that represents an app, an object (such as a file), or a function (such as the command to save)

b: a sign (such as a word or graphic symbol) whose form suggests its meaning

2: an object of uncritical devotion : IDOL

3: EMBLEM, SYMBOL

the house became an icon of 1960's residential architecture

4 Late Greek eikōn, from Greek ] : a conventional religious image typically painted on a small wooden panel and used in the devotions of Eastern Christians

5: a usually pictorial representation : IMAGE

6: a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract."the limousine was another symbol of his wealth and authority"

SYMBOL

1. a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.
2. Symbol-1. a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.a thing that represents or stands
3. Stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract."the limousine was another symbol of his wealth and authority"

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