Colour Symbolism in Giotto’s Arena Chapel
Sensory impressions derived from bright colours drew the onlooker from the material to the immaterial, bringing the divine into human life.
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Artful Musings
about Renaissance Art and Digital Art, alone and together
Tim Burton meets Raphael in the Darkness (and the Light)
His suburbia is a blinding pure-colour utopia, brightened with white – unnaturally - without shadow or stain.
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Leonardo's Sfumato
Leonardo once wrote that ‘light and shade should blend without lines or borders in the manner of smoke’.
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The Magic of Surface Detail
The illusion of reality balances the soft and the touchable with the reflective and the gleaming.
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A Constellation of Dots
How to create a representation of the human body which appears convincingly plotted in 3D space?
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Hasan Niyazi, Art Historian, Remembered
Hasan was a mercurial force in the digital art history space, and created a devoted community of Renaissance art lovers around his blog.
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Raphael's Unione
Raphael sought to achieve soft shadows and tonal unity, without sacrificing bellezza di colore, or brilliant colour.
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Michelangelo's Cangiantismo
The overall effect of Cangiantismo is slightly dreamy, and an appropriate environment for non-threatening monsters.
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Cennini and the SuperBrights
Cennini created a comprehensive manual, explaining challenges such as ‘How to paint a dead man' and How to paint water'.
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Modes of Renaissance Colour
Colour today, as in Renaissance Italy, artfully fuels an essential escape to alternative states of mind.
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The Volumetric Eye
One discovers that this connection between artists and math wasn’t confined to one-off superstars such a Leonardo.
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Heaven in a Box
Like a Baroque Doll House, the inner psychological depths and expansive terrains of Virtual Reality unfold for the intrepid.
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Marvellous Vistas
Landscape appreciation was seen as essential to physical and spiritual health for cultured Renaissance Italians.
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Math for Art's Sake
In this pursuit of naturalistic perfection through math, the world of contemporary 3D rendering and the Italian Renaissance are linked.
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My Avatar, My Salvation
Immersion in virtual worlds begins with the ability to enter that world, usually as a character, be it human, android, or furry.
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Colour Symbolism in Giotto’s Arena Chapel
Sensory impressions derived from bright colours drew the onlooker from the material to the immaterial, bringing the divine into human life.
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Caravaggio’s Counter-Reformation
Caravaggio - far from being out of step with his time - was powerfully in synch with the ideals and obsessions of Counter-Reformation Italy.
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Realism in Early Trecento Religious Painting
While realistic illusion had great power to touch the humanity of Christian followers, irreality was essential to help them transcend it.
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Perugino – Raphael’s Master
The moment I heard about this exhibition, the first outside Italy to focus on Pietro Perugino exclusively, I booked my flight.
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Reflecting on the Ghent Altarpiece
Painter Hubert van Eyck, greater than whom none has been found, began the weighty task, which his brother Jan, second in art, completed.
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