Painterly perspective and piety : religious uses of the vanishing point, from the 15th to the 18th century
Type
Bibliographic
Edition
Year
2008
TOC
Summary
"The Renaissance is perceived to be a secular movement, the majority of artworks were from ecclesiastical commissions. Because of the nature of basilica-plan churches, a parishioner's view was directed by diminishing parallel lines formed by walls of the structure. Appearing to converge upon a mutual point, this resulted in an artistic phenomenon known as the vanishing point"--Provided by publisher.