Jan Ziarnko

Jan Ziarnko, also known as Jean Le Grain, Kern and Grano, was a Polish draughtsman and printmaker.

Ada Palka has suggested that Ziarnko may have come into contact with artists involved in painting anamorphic scenes at this time.

[2] He designed bookplates and images for wall almanacs in addition to depicting aerial views and portraits, as well as historical and contemporary events.

However, Ziarnko’s use of a circular grid to create a deformation mesh which produces the anamorphic distortion appears to be highly novel.

As such, it played an important role in shaping later literature on the subject, such as Jean-François Niceron’s La Perspective Curieuse of 1638, which was voluminous in seventeenth-century France.