Woodcuts from Lorenz Stoer's "Geometria et Perspectiva," 1567.

 Woodcuts from Lorenz Stoer's "Geometria et Perspectiva," 1567.  

These drawings feel so contemporary but they are from the Renaissance.   I used to give my drawing students almost exactly this assignment when learning perspective. 


From Stoer's unique, image-based treatise on linear perspective - in each woodcut a complex polyhedron or combination of solids are embedded in a kind of dreamlike ruinscape. More
here: 

https://publicdomainreview
org/collection/the-geometric
-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567
 

https://publicdomainreview
org/collection/the-geometric
-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567