Diagrams for transferring images onto cones and pyramids
Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 240mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
Description
Diagrams relating to anamorphosis.They show how to transfer an image (a circle at the top and a square at the bottom called 'archetypus') onto a cone or a pyramid using a grid ('rete'). Anamorphosis had been of interest to artists since the sixteenth century and the various rules for creating anamorphic images may be found, for example, in Jean-François Nicéron's Thaumaturgus opticus, sive amiranda optices (1646).
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