He was, by the way, the first to apply the camera obscura to linear perspective, and he painted in a workmanlike manner, so that his pictures endure.
Squarcione was pre-eminently a teacher of the learned science of linear perspective; and the study of antique sculpture led his pupils to define all their forms severely and sharply.
I will here add the following special and interesting fact in corroboration of what I have said about the basis of linear perspective as well as about the intellectual nature of all perception.
Linear perspective is based upon the fact that the visual angle diminishes as the distance increases, and its principles may here be easily deduced.
The third and last is concerned with the explanation of how the objects [in a picture] ought to be less finished in proportion as they are remote (and the names are as follows): Linear Perspective.
Somewhat more successful has been an attempt--inaugurated by Hashimoto Gaho and Kawabata Gyokusho--to combine the art of the West with that of Japan by adding to the latter the chiaroscuro and the linear perspective of the former.
But the more credible explanation is that he merely followed Chinese example in this matter, as he did also in linear perspective, accepting without question the curious canon that lines converge as they approach the spectator.
He did not obey the laws of linear perspective as they are formulated in the Occident, nor did he show cast shadows, but his aerial perspective and his foreshortening left nothing to be desired.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linear perspective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
