This gallery depicts the changes in perspective in paintings over time. The list is in chronological order and contains 17 pieces.
Birth of the Virgin; Stories of the life of the Virgin, Sano di Pietro, 1437 - 1439, From the collection of: Fondazione Musei Senesi
This is an early image showing a shallow perspective. The arches look as if thy are a layer above everything else, and the rooms are shown well.
St. Sebastian, Andrea Mantegna, 1457/1459, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
This is a great example of early perspective due to the horizon.
Imago Pietatis, Giovanni Bellini, Around 1457, From the collection of: Museo Poldi Pezzoli
This image shows slight perspective, less than the previous image, although completed about 10 years later.
The interior of St Janskerk at Gouda, Hendrick van Vliet, 1662, From the collection of: National Gallery of Victoria
This image is an excellent example of perspective, as well as it looking incredibly realistic. This is where perspective has a huge advancement.
Interior of the New Church at Delft, with the tomb of William the Silent, Hendrick (Cornelisz.) van Vliet, About 1667, From the collection of: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
This image, much like the last looks almost real in the sense that it has true perspective.
Interior of a Church, Emanuel de Witte, 1668, From the collection of: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
This image is about where perspective in art begins to slow down in growth, because of the quality is so great.
Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta, Canaletto, (c. 1750), From the collection of: National Gallery of Victoria
The horizon point here is fantastic, as this also shows excellent perspective.
View through a Baroque Colonnade into a Garden, 1760-1768, Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, 1760-1768, From the collection of: Albertina Museum
Even in just pencil and ink, this perspective is quite exact.
The Staircase of the London Residence of the Painter, Pieter Christoffel Wonder, 1828, From the collection of: Centraal Museum
The shadows in this perspective piece, add to the simple intricacy in this piece.
Man Fishing, Robert Scott Duncanson, 1848, From the collection of: SCAD Museum of Art
The vanishing point in the image shows excellent perspective, and the hanging over tree is great asymmetry. (not as if this was meant to be symmetrical)
The Antesacristy of the Franciscan Convent, Eugenio Landesio, 1855, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Arte
This image shows the foreshortening needed for this to have perspective.
The Pieterskerk in Leiden, Johannes Bosboom, circa 1868, From the collection of: Kunstmuseum
This image is so well painted, it seems actually real from an indirect view.
Hay making, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1877, From the collection of: Musée d’Orsay, Paris
This rural image's perspective is in the acute vanishing point.
This image shows great 2 point perspective.
Memento of Los Remedios, Juan O'Gorman, 1943, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Arte
This massive landscape is a great example of perspective over a large area.
San Felipe Condominium, Philippe Gruenberg / Pablo Hare, 2003, From the collection of: MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima
This is not a painting, although it is an example of current one point perspective.
Walyer, Julie DOWLING | Badimaya/Yamatji/Widi peoples, 2006, From the collection of: National Gallery of Australia
This is the most recent perspective based piece that the collection has.
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SCAD Museum of Art
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Albertina Museum
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Kunstmuseum
Museo Nacional de Arte
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
National Gallery of Australia
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
National Gallery of Victoria
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Centraal Museum