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Art and Science: 1 Geometry and realism

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How an architect, two great masters of painting, and the author of an early textbook on painting applied geometric optics to change painting.

December 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Contents

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An overview and contents of the articles outlining the history of the Italian Renaissance, centred on paintings from Florence.

May 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: A timeline in paintings

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A timeline of milestone paintings, first surviving examples of the achievements of the Italian Renaissance, from 1320-1596.

May 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: How patrons shaped the Renaissance

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It was the patrons who funded, enabled, and occasionally directed the movement towards realism and secular subjects, and developed the genres.

March 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Was perspective essential to the Renaissance?

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For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?

March 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: What changed in the Renaissance and when?

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Considers what exactly changed in painting in the Renaissance, and when we can establish as those dates, compared with literature, for example.

March 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: 2 A Gothic introduction

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How the Tuscan city of Florence came to provide the right conditions for the Renaissance during the 14th century.

February 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Magic Carpet: Carpets in paintings 1

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Paintings by Vermeer, Delaroche, Whistler, Gérôme, Waterhouse and others showing wonderful carpets and floors.

April 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Annunciation, old and more innovative

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In the hands, and brushes, of great artists, a religious set-piece becomes a succession of marvellous and highly innovative paintings.

December 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Achieving the right perspective

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The importance of perspective in Western painting is hotly debated, but there is no doubt that is has brought about very visible change.

April 22, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

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