HIS243H1 Lecture Notes - Aerial Perspective, Chiaroscuro
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Its accessible and immediate ideas that develop: naturalism, linear perspective, classicism, chiaroscuro, aerial perspective, landscape. In byzantine art, medieval (gold) backgrounds were predominant to signfy a heavenly (not natural) place. To byzantine, so a lot of byzantine art is found there > mostly religious images. A sense of unreality (unnatural) in the paintings. Try to depict an event that is happening in real time and space: merging of religion and regular life; modern and ancient > juxtaposition, emergence of 3 dimensional space in art emerges in italian art. Through the use of liner perspective and focal points. Ariel perspective > faded colour for things further back. Scientific and mathematical discussion, in florence above all, leads to the development of these developments. David by michelangelo: trying to outdo the classics (human perfection)
