EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ibn Al-Haytham, Anamorphosis, Vanishing Point
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About 100 years later, albrecht durer (1471-1528), germany"s most famous. Renaissance artist, traveled to italy to learn perspective. He came back to germany and wrote his own manual in german on perspective and created his own images to illustrate how to do linear perspective in art. His artist is drawing a naked woman, but he never really sees her directly. If he"s capturing her naturally , but nature is outside the window. At the opening of chapter 3, edgerton points to interesting sources that influenced the development of linear perspective in renaissance art. Edgerton stresses that the real source of the geometry was an arabic commentary by abu ali al-hasan ibn al-haytham, known simply as alhacen or al hasan in the west. Abu ali al-hassan ibn al-haytham, known simply as alhacen or al hasan in the west. The muslim cultures very rarely had representational art because of religoius bans on portraying allah, muhammad, or human figures generally.
