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. 2016 Aug 17;7(4):2041669516662666. doi: 10.1177/2041669516662666

Table 2.

List of Paintings and Engravings Containing Equidistant Intervals in Visual Space.

Artist Title Year D MAE
Ambrogio Lorenzetti Annunciation 1344 4 1.4
Tommaso Masolino Banquet of Herod 1435 6 2.5
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper 1494–1499 11 0.5
Hans Vredeman de Vries Architectural Caprice with Figures 1568 2 1.7
Hans Vredeman de Vries Plate 16 from the book Pictures, etc. ∼1600 2 0.3
Dirck van Delen Perspective Fantasy of a Palace with… 1650 3 0.8
Antonio Joli Architectural Fantasy 1745 3 1.3
Giovanni Paolo Panini Interior of the Santa Maria Maggiore 1750 8 0.6
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Interior of the San Paolo fuori le Mura 1749 6 1.4
Canaletto Capriccio, A Colonnade Opening 1765 4 3.0
Canaletto Interior of Henry VII's Chapel 1770 2 0.2
Giacomo Raffaelli The Last Supper 1816 12 0.5
Susan Dorothea White The First Supper 1988 9 0.5
Roger Shepard Terror Subterra illusion 1990 5 1.6
Primary School Arts Teacher Perspective Aquariums 2012 3 2.7
Unknown How to Draw Perspective (on YouTube) 2013 3 3.2
Means of 16 pictures 5.2 ± 3.2 1.4 ± 1.0%

Note. MAE = Mean absolute error. Computed depth (D) of visual space is expressed in viewing distances. Mean absolute error (MAE) between depicted and computed intervals is expressed as a percentage of interval lengths.