Renaissance
ルネサンス / 14th–16th century / Style / Historical Styles
A movement that rediscovered ancient proportion and the human body and fixed three dimensions on a flat surface through linear perspective. Mathematics became the common language of painting and architecture, and the norms of the next five hundred years, symmetry, the classical orders and the golden ratio, were established here.
One point linear perspective / The classical orders and symmetry / Composition based on the proportions of the body / A clear triangular composition
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Showing authority and balance through proportion itself · Building an image whose depth is constructed geometrically
- Type
- Set Roman capitals in the proportions of inscriptions.
- Composition
- Steady figures and elements on a central axis and a triangle.
- Material
- Move from tempera to oil and build up transparent layers.
- Caution
- Pasting on columns and symmetry gives you stage scenery. Decide one basis for the proportions and carry it through the whole.
- Further study
- Brunelleschi's experiments with perspective / Alberti's On Painting / The surveying of ancient buildings and the systematizing of the orders