{"id":1730,"date":"2021-11-11T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:45:02","slug":"11-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/11\/11-4-4\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In class today, we learned about Leon Battista Alberti\u2019s revolutionary rules on perspective, which were published in <em>On Painting<\/em>. These guidelines give clarity on how to implement perspective into paintings. It relies on vanishing points and grid systems and to my surprise, was almost scientific. In fact, Alberti\u2019s methodology consists mainly of drawing lines to give depth to the page or canvas. Some have equated this way of painting and drawing with looking through a window. We can see the use of this method in Masaccio\u2019s <em>The Holy Trinity with the Virgin, and Two Donors<\/em>. There is much depth behind Christ giving the background a realistic look. As the eyes wander further into the background, details begin to get smaller, just as they wood in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class today, we learned about Leon Battista Alberti\u2019s revolutionary rules on perspective, which were published in On Painting. These guidelines give clarity on how to implement perspective into paintings. It relies on vanishing points and grid systems and to my surprise, was almost scientific. In fact, Alberti\u2019s methodology consists mainly of drawing lines to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}