History
Earlier, less mathematically precise versions can be seen in the work of the miniaturist Jean Fouquet. Leonardo da Vinci in a lost notebook spoke of curved perspective lines.
Examples of approximated (not necessarily systematically constructed, but emulated through an empirical method) five-point perspective can also be found in several mannerist paintings such as the curved mirror in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini's Wedding as well as in the famous self-portrait of Parmigianino seen through a shaving mirror.
The book Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer teaches five and four (infinite) point perspective.
Read more about this topic: Curvilinear Perspective
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