Natural Perspective
Nov 18, 2017 15:21:54 GMT -5
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 18, 2017 15:21:54 GMT -5
I'm currently reading an excellent book about Leonardo da Vinci. One of its main topics is the great achievement of Renaissance artists in discovering the principle of perspective in art: selecting a "vanishing point" and making paintings appear 3-dimensional by having distant objects appear gradually smaller than those in the foreground.
I wonder how Leonardo and his contemporaries would have reacted to this scene in a Deschutes Jasper, where Nature -- quite accidentally and randomly -- achieved the same principle? This slab, measuring roughly 3.5 x 4 inches, was photographed dry.
I wonder how Leonardo and his contemporaries would have reacted to this scene in a Deschutes Jasper, where Nature -- quite accidentally and randomly -- achieved the same principle? This slab, measuring roughly 3.5 x 4 inches, was photographed dry.
