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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

A short history of shadows in paintings 1

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From the shadowed silhouette painted by the legendary Dibutades to paintings of families involved in shadow play.

November 20, 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

Painting in 4 dimensions: the Brancacci Chapel frescoes

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Four masterly paintings telling stories. Painted by 3 different hands, each works in 4 dimensions thanks to narrative devices, as explained here.

February 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Out of the Shadows: Form and figures

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Was painting ‘invented’ by the maid of Corinth? What is ‘shadow play’, and how have painters extended it to religious works? A short history of shadows in painting.

November 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Composite images of the Renaissance

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I have several times written that early western painting, until the late Renaissance, not uncommonly incorporated multiple copies […]

April 28, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Frescoes of the Brancacci Chapel

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Looking at the stories shown in the main paintings of the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.

April 26, 2016 General, Painting

Brief Candles: Masaccio part 2

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His final frescoes were an inspiration to Michelangelo and others in the Renaissance, and include one of the greatest paintings in Europe.

April 24, 2016 General, Painting

Brief Candles: Masaccio part 1

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The first few years of his short career, in which he modelled faces and clothes to bring volume, and started perspective projection.

April 23, 2016 General, Painting
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