EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Florence Baptistery, Filippo Brunelleschi, Vanishing Point
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Filippo brunelleschi (1377-1446) was a florentine architect and engineer. He played a crucial role in the development of linear perspective. He was a contemporary of alberti, the famous florentine art theorist, architect, and painter. Brunelleschi was searching for a way to realistically depict buildings as he saw them in the city. He stood in a fixed spot outside of the florence baptistery and sketched many drafts of the building. Brunelleschi put his new-found perspective to the test in a series of painted experiments. Brunelleschi would paint the baptistery on a canvas in perspective. He would then cut out a hole in the canvas where the vanishing point is. A viewer would then look through the hole on the backside of the canvas. As he would look through the hole, he would find a mirror placed in front of the canvas so that he would see in the mirror the perspectival construction of the baptistery.
