aerial perspective
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McCarthy celebrated Masaccio’s frescoes for their “spatial immensity, deep, massive volumes, and implacable candour of vision, which sweeps across the panels in aerial perspective like the searching ray of a lighthouse.”
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022
We actually say, “We have this air quality, and we have a sun out here,” and it creates the whole sky, all the aerial perspective, all the god-rays.
From The Verge • Dec. 21, 2018
“That aerial perspective may help us spot that person quicker than officers on the ground.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2018
The aerial perspective this escape offers doesn’t immediately evaporate either.
From Slate • May 14, 2018
All the rules of aerial perspective that ever were written, will not tell me how sharply the pines on the hill-top are drawn at this moment on the sky.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.