Primal Screen 3 (still life)
August 7th, 2009 at 18:34How does one fabricate the primal screen?
Let’s assume I was an apprentice.
Florence. While Piero della Francesca was working at the Madonna, Leon Battista Alberti introduced a new technology for viewing and representing the visible world, known as linear perspective. To achieve the projection of three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional plane Alberti devised a viewing grid — “a thin veil, finely woven” — he called “Velum”, Latin for hymen. Perspectival images are produced with the hymen in mind. (more…)
