Perspective Optical Illusion

Renaissance architecture happens between the early 13th and early 17th centuries and it is demonstrating a development and rebirth of some certain thought and material culture of Roman and ancient Greek. The style emphasize on proportion, symmetry, and geometry of the building since they are made as the representation for God. The idea derives from the teaching in bible of how man is made in the image of God and that the porportiong of human has to be studied. Then applied the study of human’s proportion into an architecture so that the building will represent the God.

However, the main concept can be applied to every design butnot every design will be placed on the same location. In fact, there were still site restricted because of many factors including the surrounding area. What interested me the most is that ancient people know howto learn and adapt their design into a space. Even though some certain design can’t be placed into the site since it will interupt the existing surround, they still come up with technique to manage the solution.

Santa Maria Presso San Satiro by Bramante is a church in Milan where it shows a perspective illusion on one of the barrel vault. According to the limited amount of land, but they still want to show the idea of cruciform so one fake vault must be created.

There are many ideas derive from this concept. Nowadays, perspective optical illusion has been used as one field of art or even decoration including painting on the wall too. It tricks the eyes of people in a certain angle. One of the example that use the same method would be The Borromini Gallery, located into the courtyard of Palazzo Spada. Borromini created a false perspective in the arcaded courtyard of Palazzo Spada. By decreasing rows of colum

ns and rising floor, create a perspective optical illusion where people perceive a hallway of 37 meters (only 8 meters) with a gigantic structure (only 60cm tall)