ART 176 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aerial Perspective, Holy Spirit, Masaccio

• School: UH, UH Manoa, UHM
• Department: Art and Art History
• Course: ART 176
• Professor: John Szostak

Document Summary

Bottom tier showing donors as realistic people praying to. In middle tier annunciation is angel gabriel talking to mary and. Mary talking back to the gods (words upside-down and backwards) Atmospheric perspective showing the background become more hazy and undefined. Intuitive perspective showing the people get smaller and smaller as the space moves backwards. Looked through a hole in the painting and the mirror to simultaneously look at the. His way to make sure the painting looked like the actual scene. Buildings seem to lean inwards because of the one-point perspective. Everything surrounding the ideal city and renders the artist godlike, showing the capacity of humans being able to render the world as god would (humanism) This is the city god created for us--> as an artist/individual i can recreate this city in my artwork. Showing that it only looks like the lines converge at one point/can"t see from other places.