Aerial perspective: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	atmospheric perspective

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Banks of the Seine in Autumn, oil painting by Alfred Sisley; in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, oil on panel by Joachim Patinir, 1520; in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium. 17 × 21 cm.

J.M.W. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway

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