Lecture 18 Brunelleschi s Experiment and Invention of Perspective PDF

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Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377-1446 ● Mobilizes experimentation on creating fictitious space ● Designed and built duomo ● The pin-hole experiment Florence Baptistery, 1425 ● “Invented” perspective Masolino, Two Healing scenes, Brancacci chapel, Florence c. 1423 ● Learning from other painters ● New perspective framework ● Lines converge on a single point Masaccio, Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, c.1425 ● Messages about redemption, devotion ● Perspective - focus on center ● Added lots of depth on flat wall ● Creating real estate, enlarging the church in visual fashion Leon Battista Alberti, 1404-1472 On Painting, 1435-6 ● Notions of perspective not as broadly spread until 1430s ● Alberti is a renaissance man, humanist ● Mathematical foundations of creating illusion of space ○ Single eye looking - establishes vanishing point and horizon line, consistent view ● Albertian system Piero della Francesca, Flagellation Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, 1455-60 ● Corinthian column described in so much detail ○ Frame religious scene audience pays attention to ● Men in front have extremely detailed clothing ● Men in back with simple clothing ● More focus on people in front Piero della Francesca or follower, View of an Ideal City, c. 1470 ● Polished painting stones ● Buildings leading our eyes toward vanishing point ● Subject of painting is perspective

● City is organized by perspective Mantegna, Dead Christ, c. 1480 ● Found in Mantegna’s artist studio at the moment of his death ● Very dramatic foreshortening, squished the body of Christ into this perspective ● Perhaps intended to shock us ● Human reaction to death, Mary and John are old and sad ● Even though Christ is lying down, we are still looking up because of the tilted perspective ● Vanishing point is off the bed somewhere ● Man-centered perspective ● Make us believe in ideal proportions Humanism -- single perspective ● Mastery and manipulation of strategies of perspective with humanism and human figures ● Italian renaissance...