FAH101H1 Lecture : Art History 10.27.11.docx
Document Summary
1400 renaissance: antiquity, illusion of space (3d perspective in paintings) Before, they did not apply mathematical and geometrical principles. In 1300: perspective and indication of volume, proposition= becomes an issue. Humanist scholar, natural scientist, architect and cryptographer. Revolutionary: viewers of the painting felt like the painting was like looking at a real situation. Depending on where the vanishing point is, it changed the perspective of a painting. Athletics, music, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, town planning, perspective, optics, astronomy, etc. Wrote a memoir (the notebooks) written in mirror image. He utilized geometrical proportions and mathematical principles when painting. Madonnas of the rocks ( one in louvre and one in national gallery). The settings of the paintings were the same. Dan brown, in his famous book the da vinci code claims that there are hidden symbolisms in the first copy and da vinci s painting was rejected from the church and therefore, the second one was painted innocent of symbolism.