WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Renaissance painters developed which technique to improve realism in their works?
A
mixing colors
B
showing perspective
C
using religious themes
D
including human figures
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Desiring to fascinate patrons Renaissance artist were greatly concerned with painting realistic scenes and linear perspective was the method they found to portray space and depth in art; this technique helped make their art all the more captivating.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most important techniques that were established during the renaissance were sfumato, chiaroscuro, perspective, foreshortening and proportion. The advent of these techniques marked a significant shift in art history.

Detailed explanation-3: -A painter in the Italian High Renaissance and Late Renaissance, Antonio da Correggio is best known for his use of perspective and realism in his portraits.

Detailed explanation-4: -Linear perspective is thought to have been devised about 1415 by Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi and later documented by architect and writer Leon Battista Alberti in 1435 (Della Pittura).

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