The painting I found for this assignment is The Mysitic marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria.
When I first looked at this painting I knew that it was a little off. At first i thought it was the stool in the front because of the way it was positioned. Looking farther back in the painting you can find what looks so off. If you follow the lines from the wall and bookshelf they all have the same vanishing point; all except for the fireplace. It stick out of the wall in a funny position and its vanishing point is away from the other one and its obvious why it looked so wrong. Overall the painter did a pretty good job of keeping everything else in linear perspective. I guess they cant all be perfect. Using linear perspective makes a huge difference in art when I was younger we were just taught it and I figured it was just something everyone knew. I never stopped to think that someone had to come up with this concept. To us it seems so easy and part of common knowlege but it is obvious that has not always been the case.
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Aweee....I wish I could see a picture of this painting, but I can visualize it well based on your discription. It was hard for me to tell what the painter's artistic style is or if they have a screwed up vanishing point. I really will look at different paintings and try to figure out one's linear prespective.
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