Perspective quiz

More questions about Perspective

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1. 1 Easy

   Which movement painted objects from many viewpoints at once?

   Answer: Cubism

   Why: Developed by Picasso and Braque from about 1908, Cubism broke with the single fixed viewpoint painters had used since the Renaissance.

2. 2 Medium

   How did Alberti describe a painting's frame in 1435?

   Answer: As a window

   Why: Seen as a window, the picture becomes a flat slice through the rays running from the eye to the scene, which is how its perspective is built.

3. 3 Hard

   Which factor really causes 'lens compression' in telephoto photos?

   Answer: Camera distance

   Why: A wide-angle shot from the same spot, cropped to the same framing, shows exactly the same perspective as the telephoto image.

4. 4 Easy

   Whose head holds the vanishing point of Leonardo's Last Supper?

   Answer: Jesus

   Why: The painted ceiling and floor lines all run toward his right temple, steering every glance to the central figure.

5. 5 Medium

   What shape was Van Gogh's real bedroom in Arles?

   Answer: Trapezoid

   Why: Only the skewed back corner was true to life; elsewhere in the painting Van Gogh bent the rules of perspective on purpose.

6. 6 Hard

   Who published the book Linear Perspective in 1715?

   Answer: Brook Taylor

   Why: The same year he also published the book containing what mathematicians now call the Taylor series.