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I-1  Andrea Mantegna, Archers Shooting at Saint
Christopher
 
facing 1 
I-2  Taddeo Gaddi, The Presentation of the Virgin  facing 1 
I-3  Piero della Francesca, Flagellation 
I-4  Masaccio, Tribute Money 
I-5  Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child, Six Saints,
Four Angels, and Duke Federico II da Montefeltro
 
I-6  Domenico Veneziano, Martyrdom of Saint Lucy 
I-7  Raphael, Dispute Concerning the Blessed Sacrament 
I-8  Domenico Veneziano, Madonna and Child with Four
Saints
 
I-9  Pietro Perugino, Virgin Appearing to Saint Bernard 
I-10  Copy after Mantegna, Archers Shooting at Saint
Christopher; Saint James Being Led to Execution; Saint
Christopher's Body Being Dragged Away after His
Beheading
 
I-11  Andrea Mantegna, Saint Christopher's Body Being
Dragged Away after His Beheading
 
12 
I-12  Leon Battista Alberti, Church of San Francesco,
Rimini (Tempio Malatestiano), west flank 
13 
I-13  Leon Battista Alberti, Church of San Francesco,
Rimini (Tempio Malatestiano) view of west flank,
showing frieze and inscription on an urn in one of the
niches 
13 
I-14  Andrea Mantegna, detail of Figure I-11  14 
I-15  Leon Battista Alberti, Self-portrait  14 
1-1  Masaccio, Trinity  18 
1-2  Alberti's window. Engraving from G. B. Vignola, La
due regole della prospettiva practica
 
19 
1-3  Camera obscura. Engraving from R. Gemma Frisius,
De radio astronomico et geometrico liber 
20 
1-4  Geometry of the camera obscura  21 
1-5  Main features of central projection  21 
1-6  The Flying Fish of Tyre  24 
1-7  Jan van Eyck, Annunciation  25 
1-8  Mantegna, Martyrdom of Saint James  25 
1-9  Vanishing points  26 
1-10  Definition of the horizon line  27 
1-11  Plan and elevation of Masaccio's Trinity  29 
1-12  Construction of perspective representation of a
pavement consisting of square tiles 
29 
1-13  Leonardo da Vinci, Alberti's construzione legittima  30 
2-1  Edgerton's depiction of Brunelleschi's first experiment  33 
3-1  Wheatstone's stereoscopic drawing  40 
3-2  Fra Andrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Being Received into
Heaven
 
42 
3-3  Andrea Mantegna, ceiling fresco, Camera degli Sposi  45 
3-4  Baldassare Peruzzi, fresco, Salla delle Prospettive.
Photograph taken from center of room 
46 
3-5  Peruzzi, fresco, Salla delle Prospettive. Photograph
taken from center of projection of painting 
46 
3-6  Focus and depth of field  48 
3-7  Experimental apparatus for Smith and Smith's
experiment 
51 
4-1  Panels 95, 96 and 97 from La Gournerie's Traité de
perspective linéaire
 
53 
4-2  Jan Vredeman de Vries, architectural perspective  56 
4-3  Preparation of stimuli in the Rosinski et al.
experiments 
58 
4-4  Presentation of stimuli in the Rosinski et al.
experiments 
59 
4-5  Data for Experiment 1 of Rosinski et al.  60 
4-6  Modified data for Experiment 1 of Rosinski et al.  61 
4-7  Data for Experiment 2 of Rosinski et al.  62 
4-8  Pierre-Etienne-Théodore Rousseau, The Village of
Becquigny
 
63 
4-9  Schematic maps completed by two observers  64 
5-1  Square for producing afterimage  66 
5-2  A classification of trompe l'oeil pictures  68 
5-3  Carlo Crivelli (attrib.), Saints Catherine of Alexandria
and Mary Magdalene
 
70 
5-4  Antonello da Messina, Salvatore Mundi  71 
5-5  Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Young Man  72 
5-6  Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Francis in Meditation  73 
5-7  Laurent Dabos, Peace Treaty between France and
Spain
 
74 
5-8  French School, Rome  74 
5-9  Cornelis Gijsbrechts, Easel  75 
5-10  Jean-Baptiste Chardin, The White Tablecloth  76 
5-11  J. van der Vaart (attrib.), Painted Violin  76 
5-12  Jacopo de'Barbari, Dead Partridge  77 
5-13  Edward Collier, Quod Libet  78 
5-14  Samuel van Hoogstraten, Still Life  79 
5-15  Wallerant Vaillant, Four Sides  80 
5-16  Drawing used by Kennedy  81 
5-17  The vase–face reversible figure  81 
5-18  A Necker cube formed by cognitive contours as a
perceptual analog of willing suspension of disbelief 
82 
5-19  The vertical–horizontal illusion  84 
5-20  The double dilemma of picture perception that leads
to the experience that the turning of the picture, as we
walk past it, is illusory 
85 
6-1  Donatello, The Feast of Herod  88 
6-2  Perspective drawing of a figure and determination of
center of projection 
90 
6-3  If magic lantern will not come to body's eye, mind's
eye must go to magic lantern 
92 
6-4  Photograph of a photograph  93 
6-5  Drawing of a cube to be viewed folded  95 
6-6  What you see when Figure 6-5 is folded to form a
90-degree angle 
96 
6-7  Plan of Ames distorted room  97 
6-8  Distorted room as seen by subject  97 
6-9  Views of John Hancock Tower, Boston, that satisfy
and that do not satisfy Perkins's laws 
98 
6-10  Drawing of unfamiliar object that we perceive to have
right angles 
99 
6-11  Drawing of impossible object that we perceive to
have right angles 
99 
6-12  Drawing of cube indicating angles comprising fork
juncture and arrow juncture 
99 
6-13  Drawing of three-dimensional object that does not
look rectangular and does not obey Perkins's laws 
100 
6-14  Shape that is seen as rectangular prism with mirror-symmetric,
irregular, pentagonal cross section because
it obeys an extension of Perkins's second law 
100 
6-15  Figure that is not seen to have regularity of Figure
6-14
because it does not obey extension of Perkins's
laws 
100 
6-16  Three objects that subjects were asked by Shepard and
Smith to compare to drawings 
101 
6-17  Stimuli for Shepard and Smith experiment  102 
6-18  Data from the Shepard and Smith experiment  103 
7-1  Two central projections of a church and cloister  105 
7-2  Variations of pictures of oblique cubes seen under 
normal perspective  106 
7-3  Variations of pictures of oblique cubes seen under
exaggerated perspective 
107 
7-4  Marginal distortions in pictures of cubes  108 
7-5  Displays and response keys used by Sanders  109 
7-6  Experimental data from Sanders  109 
7-7  Display used by Finke and Kurtzman  110 
7-8  Marginal distortions of the sphere and the human
body 
113 
7-9  Raphael, The School of Athens  114 
7-10  Detail of Figure 7-9  115 
7-11  Marginal distortion of colonnade  116 
7-12  Paolo Uccello, Sir John Hawkwood  117 
7-13  Diagram illustrating argument made by Goodman  123 
8-1  Edgerton's depiction of Brunelleschi's second
experiment 
128 
8-2  Droodle  129 
8-3  Kenneth Martin, Chance and Order Drawing 1981  130 
8-4  Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York  132 
8-5  Marcel Duchamp, Bottlerack  133 
8-6  Advertisement for a 3–D (stereoscopic) film  136 
8-7  Andrea Mantegna, Saint James Led to Execution  138 
8-8  Explanation of central projection used in Figure 8-7  140 
8-9  Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper  141 
8-10  Analysis of perspective construction of Leonardo's
Last Supper superimposed on a cross section of
refectory 
142 
8-11  Reconstructed plan and longitudinal elevation of room
represented in Leonardo's Last Supper in relation to
plan and elevation of refectory 
143 
8-12  Leonardo's Last Supper. Photograph taken from height
of 4.5 m. 
144 
8-13  Steinberg's cardboard model of the refectory  145 
8-14  Cropped version of Leonardo's Last Supper  147 
8-15  Cropped version of Leonardo's Last Supper, showing
top part only 
148 
9-1  Definitions of two elementary camera movements:
pan and tilt 
153 
9-2  The moving room of Lee and Aronson  155 
9-3  Predictions for speed of “reading” letters traced on
the head 
157 
9-4  The Parthenon, from northwest  160 
9-5  Diagram of horizontal curvature of Parthenon  160 
10-1  Paolo Uccello, Perspective Study of a Chalice  168 
10-2  Sol LeWitt, untitled (1969)  169 
10-3  Leonardo da Vinci, A War Machine  170 
10-4  Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Elements: Two Squares
(1913); Suprematist Element: Circle (1913) 
170 
10-5  Piero della Francesca (attrib. doubtful), Perspective of
an Ideal City
 
171 
10-6  Gentile Bellini, Procession of the Relic of the True Cross  172