Piero della Francesca was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its u
Portrait of Piero della Francesca from a 1648 edition of The Lives
The Resurrection (c. 1463–65)
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta kneeling before St. Sigismund (1451)
Detail from The History of the True Cross: the Queen of Sheba meeting with King Solomon
Perspective is the representation of objects on the basis of how they may appear in real-life. Perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an object as it is seen by
This illustration shows how the eye naturally sees objects, which are described by the lines heading to each red dot
A rectilinear block drawing using two-point perspective
Staircase in multi-points perspective. Each point is a vanishing point from which straight lines come, and these lines are a guide to draw 3-dimensional object.