In this class, we talked about perspective. Giotto painted the Virgin Mary enthroned and you can see the shading and depth that is present there that wasn’t present before. In Leonardo’s Last Supper, we studied the mathematics behind the painting and its geometry. It is fascinating how he was able to use the numbers 3 and 4 and each number reveals so much about the world. Something interesting about the number 3 that I don’t think we mention is its relations to triangles and triangles are the strongest shape. I thought it was an interesting connection. We learned about the rules of perspective and how that can help us understand and play around with the setting. The northerners were interesting in raising perspective because of what it allowed them to show. Italians on the other hand were interested in perfecting the mathematics rules to construct content perspective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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