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Wow I didn't know that 3D drawings with proper perspective were a thing in the 16th century. This historic outline says that by the late 15th century, "artists

by manmal 9y ago

Wow I didn't know that 3D drawings with proper perspective were a thing in the 16th century. This historic outline says that by the late 15th century, "artists were in total command of perspective": http://www.op-art.co.uk/history/perspective/ http://www.op-art.co.uk/history/perspective/ Those drawings look so gorgeous, it's great that those colors could be preserved. Those pears also do look a bit different than ours, interesting.

Baeocystin 9y ago
Pears aren't the only fruit with notable change over the centuries. Check out watermelons! https://hyperallergic.com/226096/the-evolution-of-the-watermelon-captured-in-still-lifes/ https://hyperallergic.com/226096/the-evolution-of-the-waterm...
- wil421 9y ago
  The difference in Watermelons wasn’t due to perpesctive. The fruit was bred form a weird looking spiral fruit to the juicy water filled one we have today. With pears it looks like the artist got better over time. The pear still resembles the ones I can buy today.
- mcphage 9y ago
  I remember reading an article (which unfortunately I can't find now) criticizing that article—that the watermelon that they show was a different cultivar, or had some other condition, which can still be found in watermelons today. So... yeah, I guess this isn't a super useful response since I can't find it again, but just, it's not as simple as all that :-)
cicero 9y ago
I think we have a tendency today to under rate the abilities and knowledge of pre-modern people. There is a lot we can learn from earlier ages despite the fact that their scientific knowledge was not as advanced as ours.
pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, by 1535 Dürer has published Applied Geometry which contains a detailed geometric description of how to for capital letters. I’ve been down this rabbit hole in the past! http://pollrobots.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-just-shaping-of-letters.html http://pollrobots.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-just-shaping-of-le... http://pollrobots.github.io/BlogCode/durer.html http://pollrobots.github.io/BlogCode/durer.html

by manmal 9y ago

Baeocystin 9y ago

Pears aren't the only fruit with notable change over the centuries. Check out watermelons! https://hyperallergic.com/226096/the-evolution-of-the-watermelon-captured-in-still-lifes/ https://hyperallergic.com/226096/the-evolution-of-the-waterm...

wil421 9y ago
The difference in Watermelons wasn’t due to perpesctive. The fruit was bred form a weird looking spiral fruit to the juicy water filled one we have today. With pears it looks like the artist got better over time. The pear still resembles the ones I can buy today.
mcphage 9y ago
I remember reading an article (which unfortunately I can't find now) criticizing that article—that the watermelon that they show was a different cultivar, or had some other condition, which can still be found in watermelons today. So... yeah, I guess this isn't a super useful response since I can't find it again, but just, it's not as simple as all that :-)

cicero 9y ago

I think we have a tendency today to under rate the abilities and knowledge of pre-modern people. There is a lot we can learn from earlier ages despite the fact that their scientific knowledge was not as advanced as ours.

pacaro 9y ago

Yeah, by 1535 Dürer has published Applied Geometry which contains a detailed geometric description of how to for capital letters. I’ve been down this rabbit hole in the past! http://pollrobots.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-just-shaping-of-letters.html http://pollrobots.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-just-shaping-of-le... http://pollrobots.github.io/BlogCode/durer.html http://pollrobots.github.io/BlogCode/durer.html