Anamorphic drawing for a cylindrical mirror

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Anamorphic drawings for a cylindrical mirror. Appearing in the experiments by Leonardo da Vinci and quite common in the eighteenth century, anamorphosis is the representation of an image that at first sight is deformed and unrecognizable, though seen from a certain perspective it through a cylindrical or conical mirror its normal shape would appear.

Object/Work type:

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

29 x 45 cm

Production

Unknown

Date: 18th century

Subject/theme:

toys, mirrors, visual arts

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP00885-2