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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Date: 2007-12-05 11:39:07 István Orosz Anamorphic format Salvador Dalí Salvador Bahia Hidden faces Visual arts Anamorphosis Perspective projection		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” Add to Reading List Source URL: www.anamorphosis.com Download Document from Source Website File Size: 759,54 KB Share Document on Facebook

	“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 DocID: 15H8a - View Document
	ART OF ANAMORPHOSIS “Cabinet of pyramidal anamorphoses” by Jean Du Breuil, 1649 Panel 1 DocID: 15Gag - View Document
	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 DocID: 15Eo1 - View Document
	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” DocID: 15D5x - View Document
	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 DocID: 15wzV - View Document