EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Vanishing Point, Ibn Al-Haytham
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In order to prove that art could teach about nature, art theorists had to come up with a way to legitimate painting as a science . Renaissance art theorists made an association between painting and mathematics, basing their claims on the science" of perspective, which they regarded as a branch of mathematics. Considered as such, painting became a form of knowledge, instructing man about the natural world - jonathan brown, on the. Perspective makes a particular claim to truth. A geometrical method designed to render pictorial space, it promises a truthful - even scientific - representation of reality. It is a seeing through" as if through a window, to invoke leon battista. Alberti"s famous metaphor - hanneke grootenboer, the rhetoric of perspective. Turning art into science - not just a craft but a true representation . If one follows the rules of linear perspective in drawing, one is taking part in the rules that govern vision.
