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A Closer Look: Pictorial Space
Nicholas Penny
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Description for A Closer Look: Pictorial Space
Paperback. Series: A Closer Look. Num Pages: 96 pages, 80 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146. .
For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This “fiction” was central to the artist’s purpose. Through a close examination of paintings from the 1400s to the early 20th century, including works by Uccello, Vermeer, Titian, and Monet, Nicholas Penny explains in this latest title in the National Gallery’s Closer Look series how artists sought to make the fiction of pictorial space compelling, not only through the use of linear or aerial perspective, but also ... Read more
For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This “fiction” was central to the artist’s purpose. Through a close examination of paintings from the 1400s to the early 20th century, including works by Uccello, Vermeer, Titian, and Monet, Nicholas Penny explains in this latest title in the National Gallery’s Closer Look series how artists sought to make the fiction of pictorial space compelling, not only through the use of linear or aerial perspective, but also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
National Gallery London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
A Closer Look
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857096163
SKU
V9781857096163
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Ref
99-50
About Nicholas Penny
Nicholas Penny was the director of the National Gallery, London, from 2008 to 2015. He was previously senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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