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.
2. A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.

Translations

art technique

• Danish: forkortning c
• Finnish: perspektiivin lyhennys, lyhennys (fi)
• 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 and gerund of foreshorten

Further reading

• foreshortening on Wikipedia.Wikipedia