Making and Knowing
A minimal edition of BnF Ms Fr 640 in English Translation

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Perspectives

Painting perspectives in oil takes a long time because of the many lines that need to be drawn with a ruler, and for that reason one generally paints them in distemper. One chooses the vanishing points at will. The main thing is to know where the point is. One commonly sets two or three, sometimes up to five. .