Perspective

Perspective

Formal Concepts

Technique used to depict volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface, as in a painted scene that appears to extend into the distance.

Featured Works

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Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena, Italy, Aerial perspective

Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena, Italy, Aerial perspective

Aldo Rossi

1971

Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)

Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)

Giorgio de Chirico

Paris, early 1914

Wooden Room

Wooden Room

Anselm Kiefer

1972

Skandia Cinema, Stockholm, Sweden, Perspective of promenade

Skandia Cinema, Stockholm, Sweden, Perspective of promenade

Erik Gunnar Asplund

Unknown

Skandia Cinema, Stockholm, Sweden, Perspective of staircase

Skandia Cinema, Stockholm, Sweden, Perspective of staircase

Erik Gunnar Asplund

Unknown

Villa dall'Ava, Paris (Saint-Cloud), France, Exterior perspective

Villa dall'Ava, Paris (Saint-Cloud), France, Exterior per...

Rem Koolhaas

1987

Pedestrian City project, Hypostyle Courtyard (Perspective)

Pedestrian City project, Hypostyle Courtyard (Perspective)

Roger C. Ferri

1979

Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, project, New York City, New York, Perspective of central pier

Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, project, New ...

Louis I. Kahn

1968

Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, Aerial perspective of follies

Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, Aerial perspective of...

Bernard Tschumi

1986

Royal Hunting Tent, project, Exterior perspective

Royal Hunting Tent, project, Exterior perspective

Marcel Kammerer

1900