Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604), perspective drawing, 1605

The drawings of Hans (Jan) Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604), an architect from the Netherlandish (now Belgian) trading centre of Antwerp, played a decisive part in the spread of central perspective in artchitecture and the applied arts in the Low Countries and Germany. His employers included Duke Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1528–1589), afterwards, till 1596, he worked at the Prague court of Emperor Rudolf II.

Hans Vredeman de Vries, Perspective: Das ist Die weitberuembte khunst, eines scheinenden in oder durchsehenden augengesichts Puncten, auff und an eben stehender Wandt und Mauren, Taffelen oder gespannenen Tuech, Lugduni Batavorum 1605, S. 63; digitisation: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE