Sentence examples for rules of perspective from inspiring English sources

No regard for the rules of perspective or composition.

· Adam Thorpe's most recent novel is The Rules of Perspective (Cape).

Adam Thorpe's The Rules of Perspective (Vintage) is set at the conclusion of the second world war in East Germany.

"I loved it because the rules of perspective turned out not to be rules at all," she said.

In 1508 at Ferrara a background painted according to the rules of perspective was substituted for the mansions; the scene included houses, churches, towers, and gardens.

The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe 341pp, Jonathan Cape, £12.99 The Rules of Perspective opens one morning in April 1945, as a phosphorus shell, fired by the advancing US 346th regiment, sets fire to the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in the fictional town of Lohenfelde in Thuringia in central Germany.

The absence of an airy perspective in his landscapes (the trees grow smaller the farther they stand from the viewer, according to the rules of linear perspective, but they do not lose the definition of their contours) also helped create the image of epic Russian steadfastness.

The transference of that vitality effect from the geometric reproduction of illusory space according to the rules of Renaissance perspective to the vibrating paint surface itself was the beginning of modernism.

It evolved in tandem with the development of mathematical rules of linear perspective, which helped revolutionize architecture and enabled the illusion of three-dimensional space and distance on a flat surface in painting.

But he was at his best working with large panoramic views, which he carried out according to the rules of Renaissance perspective and with a fine eye for detail, probably using a camera obscura to guide him.

In 1472 Federico visited Florence where he clearly saw the latest examples of intarsia, or marquetry, employing the new rules of mathematical perspective, to create highly sophisticated figurative images.