Painterly Perspective and Piety: Religious Uses of the Vanishing Point, from the 15th to the 18th Century
- ISBN-10
- 0786435054
- ISBN-13
- 9780786435050
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub
- Author
- John Francis Moffitt
Description
While the Renaissance is generally perceived to be a secular movement, the majority of large artworks were from ecclesiastical commissions. Because of the nature of basilica-plan churches, a parishioners view was directed by the diminishing parallel lines formed by the walls of the structure. Appearing to converge upon a mutual point, this resulted in an artistic phenomenon known as the vanishing point.
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