The pieces in this gallery all focus on the subject of perspective.
Young Knight in a Landscape, Vittore Carpaccio, 1510, From the collection of: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
This piece deal with the element of perspective due to the vanishing point is very noticeable. You see the mountains and trees go off to the distance towards the vanishing point.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884-1886, From the collection of: The Art Institute of Chicago
In this piece the vanishing point is not seen. The audience can tell where the perspective element is by the way the coast is angled and the fact objects an people get smaller in the distance.
The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565, From the collection of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This piece is an example of a two point perspective in which a vanishing point lays in the distant rolling hills and the other is located along the path the begins in the foreground.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
This piece is an example to a two point perspective painting. As the viewer looks at the castle straight on they might notices the landscape or background goes off into two different directions. It's almost like looking at an edge of a cube.
The Bedroom, Vincent van Gogh, October 1888, From the collection of: Van Gogh Museum
This piece is a representation of a painting with multiple vanishing points. It is still a perspective painting but not all the objects follow the same vanishing point.
View of the Château de Fontainebleau, Pierre-Denis Martin, 1718/1723, From the collection of: Château de Fontainebleau
This painting at first may seem like a two point perspective piece but it's actually a one point perspective. The items in this that can throw people off is the oddly shaped pool or fountain and the lines In the fields.
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust-Floating Time-1, Tatsuo Miyajima, 2011, From the collection of: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
This piece shows obvious sign of perspective elements. The squares edges are directed towards many vanishing points in which it has depth in an empty space.
Sledge, Robert Peary, 1900, From the collection of: Berkshire Museum
This sledge is a one point perspective photo. it appears larger as the front is directed towards the audience and gets smaller when farther away.
This painting is an interesting perspective drawing. Rather than having straight harsh lines go towards the vanishing point the coast curves and bends towards the vanishing point. This gives the illusion of curvature of the coastline.
Arles. Cloitre St. Trophime [north gallery], Édouard Baldus, ca. 1861, From the collection of: George Eastman Museum
This photo shows perspective elements within the windows and the harsh lines going inwards towards the door.
Isolated from the Territory -A woman with long hair watching traffic signs closely and a man peeping the woman hiding his face behind large document envelop, Kwon, Sunkwan, 2005, From the collection of: Korean Art Museum Association
This photo is a great example of multiple overlapping objects angled towards the same vanishing point. The building are the overlapping objects.
House and Factory of Monsieur Henry, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French, 1796 - 1875, 1833, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art
This piece shows the perspective element in a very straight forward manner. It seems however that the vanishing point is behind the house in the background.
The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama", Édouard Manet, French, 1832 - 1883, 1864, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art
This piece is another example where the perspective element is not very noticeable. The audience can determine that there is perspective by how the ship and its masts are angled towards a vanishing point.
The Sheepfold, Moonlight, Jean-François Millet, 1856-1860, From the collection of: The Walters Art Museum
This painting is a bit harder to make out the perspective element. A clear distinction however is the top of the building and how is is slightly slanted towards the vanishing point.
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Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
The Walters Art Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
George Eastman Museum
Château de Fontainebleau
Van Gogh Museum
Korean Art Museum Association
The Art Institute of Chicago
Berkshire Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art