Visual Arts History 1040 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gerard Van Honthorst, Rembrandt, Anthony Van Dyck
23 May 2013
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The stark use of darks and lights the invitation to the viewer to participate in the scene, caravaggio positioned the figures on a stone slab whose corner appears to extend into the viewer"s space. This suggests that christ"s body will be laid directly in front of the viewer. This serves to give visual form to the doctrine of. Caravaggio"s distinctive style: francesco borromini, fa ade of san. Borromini rejected the traditional notion that a building"s fa ade should be a flat frontispiece. He set san carlo"s fa ade in undulating motion, creating a dynamic counterpoint of concave and convex elements on two levels. He emphasized the three-dimensional effect with deeply recessed niches. It is an engaging component inserted between interior and exterior space, provide a fluid transition between the two. Engaging with the environment, it faces an intersection, and there is a narrow bay tracking the curve street: gianlorenzo bernini, ecstasy of saint.
