Era was characterized by: unrealistic proportions size indicating importance unnatural appearance of objects.

Era was characterized by:

unrealistic proportions

size indicating importance

unnatural appearance of objects

Period between mid 1400s and 1800s

Came about because of the Scientific Revolution which increased the interest in the human body and a realistic viewing of surroundings

Majority of works in art as well as other fields were controlled by the church. They were the largest commissioner of art during this period.

Subject matter was determined by the person paying for the work.

Fresco Painting: Artists painted on wet plaster applied directly to the wall.

Oil and Water Color Painting: Not as widely used.

There was a growing need for everyone to learn mathematics because of increased trade.

Common Currency and Central Bank

Changes in University StudiesTrivium: grammar, logic, rhetoric

Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy

First to paint in perspective

The Baptistery and Town Square

Unusual viewing practicesThe Baptistery was to be seen through a pin

hole The Town Square cut at the tops of the

buildings

First to publish written account of how to correctly construct a perspective painting nearly twenty years after Brunelleschi

Was not written for the artist, but for the patron

Description of how to create a pavimento

Basic Construction

Extravagant Construction

Ultra-Extravagant Construction

Major Contributor to Perspective Drawing

Known as an artist as well as a mathematician

Wrote three treatise: The Abacus Treatise, Short Book on the Five Regular Solids, On Perspective of Painting

Was written for drawing in perspective, and not other aspects of painting

The treatise was divided into three separate books.

Piero uses Euclid’s Elements to justify his work as well as prove an original theorem

This book explains how to draw shapes based upon the pavimento

Objects such as columns, platforms, and other polygons can be built based upon the pavimento

The final book deals with objects that are harder to draw such as molded bases of columns and human heads.

He introduces a new method of drawing in this book which is introduced by using a square as an example.

Know for meticulously mapping out his paintings before starting.

One of the best perspective painters of the Renaissance

Calculating the mathematics was not the only way for an artist to draw in perspective

Instruments were created to make this process easier for the artist