Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 260
thesingle oblique measurement e t. I shall call d t the directdistance of the object at e,and d e its lateral distance.It is rather a license to call d tits direct distance, for e t isthe more direct of the two; but there is no other term which would not cause confusion. Lastly, in order to… … Fig. 3. * P and q being points indicative of the place of the towers base and top.In this figure both are above the sight-line ; if the tower were below thespectator both would be below it, and therefore measured below D.10 218 PERSPECTIVE. distance of. the point given. In all perspective prob-lems…
Art · Aesthetics
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