EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Anamorphosis, Thesis Statement
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The emergence of a new technique in painting in the early 1400s it italy, namely linear perspective . The significance of this development far beyond being a mere technique. It turned painting into a kind of science , it introduced a geometrical and mathematical nature, and it positioned the observer in a way that impacted the modern subjects . One way to see the significance of linear perspective will be to see how artists within a hundred to two hundred years both embraced it and started to play with it. We"ll look especially at the art of anamorphosis , paintings that worked with distortions of perspective and with repositioning the observer. We began the course with martin luther and the protestant reformation; early. We followed the consequences of this schism in christianity through the years of conflict, concluding with the thirty years war (1618-1648) and the momentous.
