STEFAN ARTENI

Perspective as Form and Medium

and
the Interplay of Proportion Systems
and Perspective

XVIII

SolInvictus Press 2006

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Cappella Paolina, the Vatican
Conversion of Paul
(Cappella Paolina)
Crucifixion of Peter
(Cappella Paolina))
Tiziano Vecellio
Musical ratio
3/6/9; the vanishing
point is located on
the second vertical
division on the left
[diagram by
Charles Bouleau]
An alternative diagram
by
Charles Funck-Hellet
based on the
Goden Ratio
Musical ratio
[diagrams by Charles Bouleau]
Musical ratio
[diagrams by Charles Bouleau]
Paolo Caliari Veronese
Villa Barbaro at Maser
Villa Barbaro at Maser
Villa Barbaro at Maser
Villa Barbaro at Maser
Minerva between Geometry and
Arithmetic,
transferred fresco, cm. 190x284
Composition diagram
by Charles Bouleau
The Muse of Painting
Perspective diagram by Charles Bouleau
Composition diagram by Charles Funck-Hellet
Allegory of Love
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
The Golden Section
[diagram by
Charles Bouleau]
Perspective diagram
Dynamic musical ratios
[diagrams by Charles Bouleau]
Charles Bouleau's method of
rabattement des petits côtés from
www.handprint.com
[Bruce MacEvoy]

Diagram by Charles Bouleau

 Rosso Fiorentino
(Giovanni Battista di Jacopo di Rossi)
The Deposition, details
Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)
Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano
(Florence)
Study for fresco, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano (Florence)
Fresco, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano (Florence)
Fresco, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano (Florence, detail)
Fresco, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano (Florence), detail
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
 Last Supper, Stavronikita Monastery, Refectory,
Fresco by Theophanes the Cretan, Cretan School,
1546.

Michael Damaskenos

El Greco
Russian [Byzantine] Icon

Presumed El Greco self-portrait

Byzantine Icon El Greco’s Saint Luke
The table appears to be
drawn in reverse
perspective
Movement indicated by asymmetry
[diagram by André Lhote]
Russian Icons
Russian Icon
Russian Icon
The Crucifixion of Christ, a
fresco from the church
of the Holy Virgin at Studenica, Byzantine Icon
1202
The Baptism of Christ. Mosaic. Phokis,
St Luke (Hosios Lukas) Monastery, Greece
Byzantine, first half of the 11th c.
Russian Icon