Class four-19-Feb-2024
In class we discussed the Quattrocento and the uptick of the study of literature, art and ideas from the past in this time. With moveable type and the print press, ore books were made, but at first were still expensive die to the high cost it took to make paper. The city of Florence was having a moment, filled with guilds of differing perfusions. (Judges, wool, wool cloth, silk/metal sculptures, doctors, stone and wood sculptures.)
These guilds would oversee the making of art pieces for public display or different buildings. One example is the the wool guild creating a competition to chose the artist to make bronze doors for the baptistry of Florence. The loser of the competition was Brunelleschi, he then focused on architecture, traveling to Rome to gain inspiration from the proportions of the ancient buildings, built with 1 to 2 ratio. Brunelleschi developed the method of depicting space called linear perspective to sketch the buildings he was observing for inspiration. Brunelleschi then incorporated the use of the proportions in the building of the dome of the cathedral in Florence and a hospital to name a few. The duoma is inspired from the dome of the pantheon, but the gothic style of the time produced a more elongated result.
stemming from Brunelleschi’s method of linear perspective we analyzed the technique. A horizon line which sis at eye level is all the possible vanishing points lines stem from that towards the viewer in a cone shape to form lines perpendicular to the view plane while parallel lines cross those lines at 90 degrees to form a grid in which the subject can be rendered in perspective