subject: Perspective – A Terminology with Multiple Meaning [print this page] Objects in the picture were to be foreshortened systematically as such pictures receded into distance. Orthogonal lines usually converted into one single vanishing point and it corresponded to fixed viewpoint of the spectator. In general the Italian artists were working within geometrical systems. It was in sharp contrasts with Flemish painters those depended more on the empirical means for achievement of convincing delineation of the space.
