Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image
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Full contents for this series, with lists of artists considered in each of its articles, and links to the articles.
Classical and mediaeval dress was simple, and not tailored much until after 1000 CE. Painters were also constrained by fresco and egg tempera.
A staple product of many pro painters in western Europe for over half a millennium, and required by every church and chapel.
From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.
How an architect, two great masters of painting, and the author of an early textbook on painting applied geometric optics to change painting.
From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.
An overview and contents of the articles outlining the history of the Italian Renaissance, centred on paintings from Florence.
A timeline of milestone paintings, first surviving examples of the achievements of the Italian Renaissance, from 1320-1596.
The significance of Alberti’s textbook on painting and simplified perspective, followed by Piero’s account of perspective, and Vasari’s new history of painting.
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