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  2. Aerial perspective - Wikipedia

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    In art, especially painting, aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective [5] refers to the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detailed, and usually bluer than near objects. This technique was introduced in painting by Leonardo da Vinci to portray what was observed in nature and evident in ...

  3. Aerial landscape art - Wikipedia

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    Aerial perspective – Atmospheric effects on the appearance of a distant object; Bird's-eye view – Elevated view of an object or location from above; Indigenous Australian artArt made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia; Cityscape – An artistic representation of the physical aspects of a city or urban area

  4. Bird's-eye view - Wikipedia

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    A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing, and are often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps. [1]

  5. Luminism (American art style) - Wikipedia

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    Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863, National Gallery of Art. Luminism is a style of American landscape painting of the 1850s to 1870s, characterized by effects of light in a landscape, through the use of aerial perspective and the concealing of visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility ...

  6. The Tribute Money (Masaccio) - Wikipedia

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    Masaccio is often compared to contemporaries like Donatello and Brunelleschi as a pioneer of the renaissance, particularly for his use of single-point perspective. [1] One technique that was unique to Masaccio, however, was the use of atmospheric, or aerial perspective. Both the mountains in the background, and the figure of Peter on the left ...

  7. Forced perspective - Wikipedia

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    In film, photography and art, perceived object distance is manipulated by altering fundamental monocular cues used to discern the depth of an object in the scene such as aerial perspective, blurring, relative size and lighting. [12] Using these monocular cues in concert with angular size, the eyes can perceive the distance of an object. Artists ...

  8. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Aerial perspective

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    Original – Atmospheric perspective, or aerial perspective, is the effect caused by the atmosphere on the appearance of objects observed by a viewer.As the distance between the object and the viewer increases, the contrast decreases and the colours become lighter and more bluish, until the image of the object eventually fades into the sky.

  9. View of Toledo - Wikipedia

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    It is also an aerial perspective in comparison to View of Toledo. For being paintings depicting Toledo, they could not be any more different. However, they were believed to be commissioned by Pedro Salazar de Mendoza as they were found to be a part of his personal collection after his death. Salazar was very passionate about Toledo in every aspect.