“An artist drawing a nude” by Albrecht Dürer, 1525 Against this background, anamorphosis was born. The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci contain the earliest-known anamorphic drawings, dating from the 1480s: Anamorph

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ART OF ANAMORPHOSIS “Cabinet of pyramidal anamorphoses” by Jean Du Breuil, 1649 Panel 1

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How does this connect with anamorphosis? Let’s look again at Dürer’s artist drawing a woman. I’ve added just a few of the light rays that make up the cone of vision. Looked at this way, we can see that the picture

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• Mirror
• Perspective
• Cone
• Light
• Learning
• Intelligence
• Perspective projection
• Anamorphosis
• Visual arts

THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES In the 19th century, the development of inexpensive colour printing made anamorphic images more widely available, and it became a popular “parlour game”, alongside other “visual games”

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• István Orosz
• Anamorphic format
• Salvador Dalí
• Salvador
• Bahia
• Hidden faces
• Visual arts
• Anamorphosis
• Perspective projection

A view of Florence, aboutfrom Bronowski, “The Ascent of Man”) “La Citta Ideale” (The Ideal City) by Piero della Francesca, about 1470 The German artist Dürer made some of the best illustrations of the id

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• British people
• Perspective
• Perspective projection
• Albrecht Dürer
• Viewpoint
• Jacob Bronowski
• Piero della Francesca
• Visual arts
• Technical drawing
• European people

THE RENAISSANCE, THE REDISCOVERY OF PERSPECTIVE, AND THE ORIGINS OF ANAMORPHOSIS The Florentines were extremely proud of this invention [perspective], which they thought … was unknown to antiquity… But has it anythin

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• Painting
• Renaissance
• Perspective
• Technical drawing
• Renaissance art
• Civilisation
• Anamorphosis
• Visual arts
• Perspective projection
• Art history

TO FIND OUT MORE The exhibition web site is intended to be a major reference point for finding out about anamorphosis: www.anamorphosis.com Your comments and questions about the exhibition are welcome by email to:

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HOW ANAMORPHOSIS WORKS There are two key physical ideas that explain the mechanism of perspective, and hence the construction of anamorphoses using perspective. First, the idea that light travels in straight lines. Secon

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ANAMORPHOSIS IN SUNDERLAND On the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland, the St Peter’s Riverside Sculpture Project, led by Colin Wilbourne, created in 1997 a wonderful perspective anamorphosis called Passing Through:

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• Diego Velázquez
• Michel Foucault
• Painting
• European people
• Anamorphosis
• Visual arts
• Las Meninas
• Continental philosophy