1. Read the text and translate it into Ukrainian.

2. Answer the following questions:

1. What does the ability to give works of art an illusion of perspective enable artists?

2. When were systems for understanding perspective devised?

3. What do we mean when we talk about “getting things into perspective”?

4. What does using laws of perspective mean?

5. How did great artists in the ancient world follow the rules of proportion?

6. When did the artists begin to use the “laws” of perspective?

7. Who is the invention of a reliable system of perspective credited to?

8. Who was one of the first artists to use the new system of perspective?

9. What did the tightly knit artistic circle in Florence ensure?

10. Where did German artist Albrecht Dourer learn ‘the secret art of perspective”?

3. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following words and phrases:

to enable

to pave the way

immense artistic achievements

to see issues in proportions

vast

to dominate a composition

spacious

to stretch away

to follow rules of proportion

distant landscape

to devise

reliable system

celebrated pictures

to converge

vanishing point

to create the geometric graph

to estimate the correct size

to diminish into the distance

to converge lines of the stone slabs

4. Give English equivalents of the following words and phrases:

здатність

давати можливість

вигадувати

пов’язуватися

просторий

зменшуватися

просторий

зображати реальність

релігійний тиск

вигадувати

знаменита картина

що зникає

зачарований

простягати руки

суміжний

плита

палко

розглядати як

набувати

бути здатним

5. Make up sentences of your own with the given words and phrases.

6. Match a line in A with a line in B.

A	B
to enable	to cover with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
to devise	to provide somebody with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority to do something
to pave	to move or cause to move towards the same point
immense	far away or apart in space or time
vast	able to be trusted; predictable or dependable
distant	attracted and delighted by arousing interest or curiosity
reliable	unusually large in size, extent, degree, or number
to converge	to work out, contrive, or plan something in one’s mind
fascinated	unusually large, huge
to acquire	to get or gain something