Drawing & Painting Concepts


Linear Perspective & Foreshortening

Linear Perspective

One-point Perspective

Canaletto, Campo di Rialto, Venice, c. 1760, oil on canvas, 46.9 x 73.5 inches, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Two-point Perspective

Foreshortening

Andrea Mantegna, Mourning the Dead Christ, c. 1480, tempera on wood panel, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Charles White, Preacher, 1952, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Photo of various arm positions. The rightmost image shows a foreshortened view of the arm.