MPC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sfumato, Aerial Perspective, Piero Della Francesca
9 Nov 2017
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Jan van eyck had several elements in his paintings that had deeper meanings, a woman with robes that make her stomach look round mean she is fertile, size designates status. Piero della francesca painted the famous piece double portrait of federico da. His painting suggests he was familiar with flemish painting due to the paint type, the bird"s eye view landscape. Giotto and piero both had a problem depicting water, they were unable to depict it properly. Flemish is the grandy duchy of flanders, run by the duke of flanders, includes. Venus naked, is the purest form of love. Leonardo da vinci, masted the water technique. Sfumato means smoked, the gradations between light and dark are soft and so the painting is enveloped in a smoky haze. Atmospheric perspective, the further away in the background an object is, the bluer and hazier it gets. The sculpture pieta by michelangelo is a pyramid sculpture, proportions are off.
