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Reverse perspective

Reverse perspective, also called inverse perspective, inverted perspective, divergent perspective, or Byzantine perspective, is a form of perspective drawing in which the objects depicted in a scene are placed between the projective point and the viewing plane. This has the visual effect that objects farther away from the viewing plane are drawn as larger, and closer objects are drawn as smaller, in contrast to the more conventional linear perspective for which closer objects appear larger. Lines that are parallel in three-dimensional space are drawn as diverging against the horizon, rather than converging as they do in linear perspective. Technically, the vanishing points are placed outside the painting with the illusion that they are "in front of" the painting.

The name Byzantine perspective comes from the use of this perspective in Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons; it is also found in the art of many pre-Renaissance cultures, and was sometimes used in Cubism and other movements of modern art, as well as in children's drawings. The reasons for the convention are still debated among art historians; since the artists concerned in forming the convention did not have access to the more realistic linear perspective convention it is not clear how deliberate the effects achieved were.

Usage examples of "reverse perspective".

Perhaps her reverse perspective on the stairwell had prevented her from realizing the nature of the trap.

I motored north on State, seeing the same sights again from the reverse perspective.

From that reverse perspective, it seemed to have swallowed not part of the forest but the meadow and the house at the top of the rise.

He could feel its sharpness, its taper, the geometric angle of its reverse perspective, growing smaller as it approached.