"Hmmm,"
says Carmine. "This looks like the view out the window—but the perspective
lines on this sketch are all wrong. I can't believe Leonardo couldn't
draw his own neighborhood accurately. See how the orthogonals all go
to different vanishing points?
"As
one of the great artistic feats of the Renaissance, perspective is obvious
in a lot of artworks from that period. Look at this painting by Raphael.
Do you see the orthogonals in the ground tiles? The linear perspective may look
obvious to our modern eyes, but to Renaissance artists it was such a
great discovery that they were eager to use it in their paintings.
Carmine points to the sketch of the river. "I'll bet that our time meddler drew this sketch! What should we do with it?"
Take it with us, or
or
Put it back
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