Vindicating Vitruvius on the subject of perspective

Christensen, Jesper

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“… 127 Christensen 1999: 161–6, makes a case for the existence of the theoretical knowledge, but admits that finding any evidence of its application is frustrating, indeed a cause of despair (at 161). The cases to which he appeals are rather partial and apply to only certain objects in fields of space that are, if anything, radically fragmented.…”

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Did the Romans Have a Future?

Shaw

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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In analysing matters as diverse as state financing, strategic planning, public benefactions and long-term credit in private business transactions, the historian is faced with an underlying problem about the perceptions of time. One aspect of this problem is the manner in which pictures of a complex future are reflected in the behaviour of agents engaged in these activities. The manner in which actions were (or were not) taken by them suggests a peculiar configuration of future time in the Roman world. It is speculatively argued that perspectives on the future had analogies with the different ways in which a sense of depth was created by artists working on a two-dimensional space and with the contextual ways in which spatial perspective was employed.

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Did the Romans Have a Future?

Shaw

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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Ancient Optics: Theories and Problems of Vision

Thibodeau¹

2016

A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Perspective Systems in Roman Second Style Wall Painting

Stinson

2011

American Journal of Archaeology

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There is still much to be learned about architectural perspective from the study of Roman wall paintings dating to the first century B.C.E. This article demonstrates that Second Style wall paintings of houses and villas in Rome and Campania hold evidence for different types of perspective: convergence perspective and parallel perspective. A special variation involves multiple systems of convergence perspective. Analyses of these different perspective systems and reconstructions of painters' methodologies demonstrate the sensitivity and adaptability of wall painters to the physical and social parameters of Roman domestic space. The use of different perspective systems reflects the role of painters in crafting the complex form of perspective found in Second Style wall painting. While being adjustable to many variables, the type of perspective found in the Second Style offered viewers impressions of perspectival convergence, a visual function analogous to contemporary applications of perspective in other media, such as architects' drawings and theater scenery painting.*

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Vindicating Vitruvius on the subject of perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Did the Romans Have a Future?

Did the Romans Have a Future?

Ancient Optics: Theories and Problems of Vision

Perspective Systems in Roman Second Style Wall Painting

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