Art 121. Visual Analysis Essay
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LinearPerspectiveinArtHistoryacc10.10.18.pptxHasegawa Tohaku, left panel of Pine Trees screen, sumi on paper, 1595
Anonymous Japanese woodblock print, 19th cent.
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Isometric projections are useful to architects, engineers, and anyone to whom actual measurements and scale are important.
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Simone Martini, Orsini Altar
Carrying of the Cross
1333
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Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel fresco
Lamentation of Christ
1306
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Masaccio, Santa Croce fresco
The Holy Trinity
1427
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Piero della Francesco
Sansepulcro fresco
The Resurrection
1463
Although Da Vinci’s Last Supper is perhaps the most famous fresco that was nearly destroyed during World War II, the people of the Italian town Sansepolcro in Tuscany contend that they, in fact, hold the most important work spared in the war. For this, they can thank commanding British artillery officer and great appreciator of art, Tony Clarke, who was supposed to raze the city, but defied orders—having read Aldous Huxley’s comment that Sansepolcro was home to the best painting in the world. Huxley, of course, was referring to Piero della Francesca’s famed fresco, The Resurrection.
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Attr. Piero della Francesco, Laurana, da Forli…paint on wood panel
The Ideal City, late 15th cent.
Raphael, Vatican fresco, School of Athens 1510 (showing vanishing point)
Giovanni Paolo Panini, oil on canvas, St. Peter’s Basilica, 1750’s
Jean Beraud, oil on canvas, Café Gloppe, 1889
Edward Hopper, oil on canvas, Nighthawks 1942
Anders Jilden photograph
3-point perspective drawing
