EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Vanishing Point
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Because brunelleschi"s introduction of a mathematically and scientifically generated linear perspective changed the way the western world represented and even saw reality. Indeed, it might even have changed reality itself. More on that bold claim in a couple of lectures when we turn to galileo and science. Leon battista alberti was an italian humanist artist and theorist. Shortly after brunelleschi runs his mirror experiments, alberti writes on painting, a treatise for painters detailing how to create perspectival drawings. Alberti continuously stresses that painting is to be learned from nature as a. In chapter 12 edgerton summarizes how one can build up a painting in linear perspective, starting with a vanishing point, then creating a grid with orthogonals radiating out from it and parallel lines intersecting them. They indicate the differing sizes of objects in the painting that will give us. What does this method do to space? the sense of depth of space.
