I'm still not seeing any "definable and measurable truths" here that aren't trivial - since there are so many kinds of pictorial space and perspectives that might be applied in them. Can't we even say that each painting is sui generis ? -- even among those Renaissance paintings where new rules of linear perspective were introduced -- those rules seem to be broken at will -- for reasons that might be called 'aesthetic'. (I remember examining the perspective in Titian's "Venus of Urbino" with some doctrinaire neo-academics a few years ago)
Perhaps one could say that the aesthetics of pictorial space are universal -- since a modern aesthete might have the same preferences as an ancient king in a very distant land (and who doesn't admire the choices made by Akbar the Great ?) But the reasons for those preferences seem to lie outside any "definable and measurable truth" (BTW --- the images that David just shared are too ugly for me to contemplate, regardless of whatever truths of perspective they may be exemplifying.) ____________________________________________________________ All is not lost! Click now for professional data recovery. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc2QdR1olCgXw1vpiRmsmz7xRS 7YBeB98XhlcygOo2z0MO0EM/
