foreshortening

foreshortening

English

Andrea Mantegna, The lamentation over the dead Christ, c. 1490

Noun

foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings)

1. (art) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.

Translations

art technique

Danish: forkortning c French: raccourci (fr) m German: Verkürzung (de) f Italian: scorcio (it) m

Neapolitan: scurcio Russian: ра́курс (ru) (rákurs) Spanish: escorzo (es) m

Verb

foreshortening

1. present participle of foreshorten

Further reading

• foreshortening on Wikipedia.Wikipedia