Storiascopio · Era 9 of 12 · lower secondary year 2
Renaissance perspective
about 1420 · Florence, Italy
In short
In the early 1400s, in Florence, Filippo Brunelleschi showed with an experiment how to draw space realistically. Lines moving away from the viewer seem to run towards a single point, called the vanishing point. The painter Masaccio used these rules in his Holy Trinity fresco in Santa Maria Novella, and the scholar Leon Battista Alberti explained them in a book. So paintings began to look like windows opening onto the world.
Why it matters This is where the way of showing depth that we still use in drawing, photography and video games comes from.
Source: Treccani, entry “Prospettiva”
Where we are in the era “Early modern age”
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about 1420Event 1 of 251687
Your turn
Name ______________________ Class ______ Date __________
When did it happen? Find the date at the top and write it here:
Tell it in your own words: what happened?
Draw the scene below.
storiascopio.com/en/event/renaissance-perspective/ · free worksheet, you may photocopy it for your class