This drawing demonstrates the one-point perspective system commonly used by Albert Durer to render the three dimensional space for the interior view of St Jerome's study and many other scenes. He understood that all visible objects could be projected to a two-dimensional plane, while preserving their three-dimensional information by using point perspective systems. By using horizontal and vertical units of equal measure, the relative sizes of objects is preserved through spacial scaling. As noted earlier, there are built-in distortions in all perspective systems, which means that only parts of the perspective grids can be convincingly used. If an assumption of a system is altered, the space it describes is changed, often in unexpected ways. Click here to the next page. Back to home