HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Vanishing Point, Jerusalem In Christianity
18 Oct 2016
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Memento mori: a reminder of mortality placed in art. Use of a grid to help artists copy accurately. Use of real thread to imitate a line of sight. Turning the human form into a series of geometric shapes that are easy to turn and edit, creating different human figures. Paintings were fantasies of what the perfect city could look like (considering how dirty and decrepit the middle ages left cities) Erwin panofksy: 30 march 1892 14 march 1968, created the idea of perspective as a symbolic form, the power of the artist to dictate what they (and we) see and what the world actually looks like.
