About the video: Perspective During the Middle Ages
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell about you about the Middle Age art perspective and the first attempts of a possible space representation with Giotto and Duccio Da Buoninsegna.The art of the Byzantine, Medieval and Gothic periods was wonderful, but the images made no attempt to create the illusion of depth and space.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Perspective During the Middle Ages, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Drawing Specialization: From Sketching to Digital Visualization. Learn conceptual architectural sketching, translating abstract ideas into coherent, creative drawings using freehand techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to speak about perspective in Middle Age, in particular starting from Byzantine times, the 6th century, to the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. So we will see the development of perspective and also some very interesting kind of perspective, i will tell you. So we start from this wonderful mosaic You can see here it is representing Empress Theodora and Attendant. uh, byzantine mosaic in San Vitale in Ravenna. And, uh, it is like. something completely different compared to the ancient Roman art, because in this case perspective disappears completely. It is n...”
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