Fooling The Eye

Question 1

Leon Batista Alberti

Answer 1

An architect and writer who first formulated rules that artists could follow to create perspectival work.

Question 2

Braccia

Answer 2

An old Italian unit of length.

Created by Leon Batista Alberti

Question 3

Ground Line

Answer 3

base line which represents a ground plane in pictures having no indication of spatial depth and upon which all figures and objects are placed irrespective of their real spatial relationship

Question 4

Vanishing Line

Answer 4

The single point on the horizon where all the lines in the ground level seem to come together

Question 5

Orthogonals

Answer 5

Lines that connect to the vanishing point

Question 6

Horizon line

Answer 6

The place where the land and the sky meet

Question 7

Santo Spirito (date 1543)

Answer 7

Brunelleschi made a ground plan of the church.

Using linear perspective Brunelleschi drew the interior to show how it would look like.

Question 8

Filippo Brunellleschi

Answer 8

The Italian sculptor and architect who demonstrated the principles of perspective through optics.
Painted a picture of the Florentine Baptistery on a surface of a small mirror, on top of its own.