Then said the Shepherds one to another, Let us here show the pilgrims the gate of the Celestial City, if they have skill to look through our perspective-glass.

Production illustration: the techniques and applications of perspective engineering drawings.

All we saw, heard, read, or felt was the subject of mutual confidences: the transitory emotion that a flush of colour and a bit of perspective awakens, the blue tints that the sunsetting lends to a white dress, or the eternal verities, death and love.

Rather, perspective painting allows an artist to relate between dimensions: representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane.

Before this, these suggested the idea of a misunderstood (or very conventional) perspective representation of a circular flower.

260 "White drops of mercy bath'd his hoary cheek, "He pour'd by heav'n inspir'd its accents meek; "In truth's clear mirror bade the mourner's view "Pierce the deep veil which darkling error drew; "And vanquish'd empire with a smile resign, 265 "While brighter worlds in fair perspective shine.

Yet it is not the perfection of colors or of design, or mechanical aids, or exact imitations, or perspective skill, which constitute the highest excellence of the painter, but his power of creation,the power of giving ideal beauty and grandeur and grace, inspired by the contemplation of eternal ideas, an excellence which appears in all the masterworks of the Greeks, and such as has not been surpassed by the moderns.

The old fosters meditation and silence; the new kindles the imagination, by its variety of perspective arrangement and mystic representation,still reverential, still expressive of consecrated sentiments, yet more cheerful.

At the principal entrance, a fine perspective view is obtained through several successive gateways, which is terminated in the background by a handsome hall.

This is only possible within a space of three dimensions, in which, owing to perspective distortions and changes, these variations of projection can be reconciled with the constancy of the form of a body.

One whole wing of the palace is occupied by the library, a most noble room, with a vast perspective length from end to end.