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Brunelleschi's Theory Of Perspective

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The new technology of perspective further enhances the realism of the painting. Perspective makes a realistic style of painting has made great progress. Perspective as one of the most significant achievement of the Renaissance, and still play its great influence, especially make great contributions on the spatial structure(Gombrich 1950). The view was so realistic which not difference between the painted scene and how the actual building’s appears in three-dimensional space. However, this has realistic effects’ three-dimensional paintings in the medieval painting and even ancient Greek, Roman painting never appeared. In the absence of perspective of perspective, an artist is using the naked eye observation of the object will occurring a phenomenon, which is near to see the object is big and far to see the object is small. Artists are usually used this method to present the effect of space. Artist used to observe what looked like, rather than at an angle to see anything(Gombrich 1950). Thus, this also explains why as an architect Brunelleschi can discovery of the vanishing point. Perspective was displayed a pictorial representation of what the eye see , and also a geometrical formula. …show more content…

One example of this is Ognissanti Madonna by Giotto. He represented three-dimensional space by reasonable arrangements the spatial position of the person which around throne. This effect is achieved by artist eye and visual perception, there is no scientific regularity. Besides, paintings can correct use perspective in construction, but cannot unify them into space. An example to illustrate is Duccio’s paintings The Road to Emmaus. The background of building walls and door frames are conformed to the perspective, But observe the full painting, cannot have any vanishing point, thus, can not have a visual point. Paintings are not realistically represented three-dimensional space and visual

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