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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4972138, member: 110504"]...Well, Except, [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER], you don't need a full-on, post-Renaissance version of linear perspective, replete with vanishing points, to get an impression that the phenomenon, never mind the concept, was sitting there in people's heads well before that. ...Or that people, even in this medium, weren't gropingly trying to represent it.</p><p>...This will diverge a little, but I cant help thinking of two examples from modern art that kind of 'anticipate' this, albeit very much in reverse time. Cezanne's penchant, especially in the late landscapes, for 'aerial' perspective is one. Another is the American artist Romare Bearden's acknowledgement that he took inspiration from what he characterized as (...Not an oxymoron) 'Ikonic space' in his otherwise often neo-Cubist collages and paintings.</p><p>Neither of those examples translates directly to ancient coins, but in that context, you can get the distinct impression that people were moving toward linear perspective, however discretely.</p><p>...At which point, Oops, Busted, I'd have to cite the same thread you did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4972138, member: 110504"]...Well, Except, [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER], you don't need a full-on, post-Renaissance version of linear perspective, replete with vanishing points, to get an impression that the phenomenon, never mind the concept, was sitting there in people's heads well before that. ...Or that people, even in this medium, weren't gropingly trying to represent it. ...This will diverge a little, but I cant help thinking of two examples from modern art that kind of 'anticipate' this, albeit very much in reverse time. Cezanne's penchant, especially in the late landscapes, for 'aerial' perspective is one. Another is the American artist Romare Bearden's acknowledgement that he took inspiration from what he characterized as (...Not an oxymoron) 'Ikonic space' in his otherwise often neo-Cubist collages and paintings. Neither of those examples translates directly to ancient coins, but in that context, you can get the distinct impression that people were moving toward linear perspective, however discretely. ...At which point, Oops, Busted, I'd have to cite the same thread you did.[/QUOTE]
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