WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Using the technique of ____, Renaissance painters showed three dimensions on a flat surface.
A
perspective
B
vernacular
C
secular
D
predestination
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Linear perspective was important because it gave artists the tools to create a convincing illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface. If Renaissance art strove to “bring the divine down to earth, ‘’ linear perspective made it possible to create a fully rational space for figures to inhabit.

Detailed explanation-2: -chiaroscuro, (from Italian chiaro, “light, ‘’ and scuro, “dark”), technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the early 1400s, the Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) reintroduced a means of rendering the recession of space, called linear perspective. In Brunelleschi’s technique, lines appear to converge at a single fixed point in the distance.

Detailed explanation-4: -What happened when Renaissance artists started using perspective in their paintings? It allowed for more realistic paintings. Who created the first mathematical system of perspective in painting?

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