EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Vanishing Point, Filippo Brunelleschi
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Lecture - renaissance art, god, mathematics, and anamorphosis. Painting, through linear perspective, could be potentially elevated to the status of science. The physical laws that govern how vision operates are the same laws used to create linear perspective art. To look at a canvas is now like looking through a glass window onto nature itself. Artists can now take part in the re-creation of nature. Thus, the rise of linear perspective in painting coincides with the rise of humanism in europe. Through art and science human begins become little creators (imitating god as the creator of the universe) Art can now provide more than a mirror of nature; it is a window into nature. Through painting, we can learn to read the book of nature. This is an old trope , i. e. , a metaphorical expression. Goes back to the european middle ages.
