I am starting today with watching the Art of the Western World Episode 3+4 and I hope that they will give me another great summary of all the things I’ve learnt over the past few days. I honestly didn’t find this chapter very interesting as I’ve learned a lot about Gothic architecture and art in high school and I felt like is just not my field of special interest. I am now eager to move on to Early Renaissance as I really admire the paintings of the Renaissance artists like Dürer and others. And I’ve been to Italy quite a few times and I have seen a lot of original works so this makes me extra excited. It is supposed to be the century of the Medici and I am excited if I am going to read something about them too or if there are other more important things.
I just finished reading the first few pages of “The Fifteenth Century in Europe” (A World History of Art) and I am now at the research point and back in school I’ve always enjoyed making linear perspective drawings/sketches. After reading and researching about it again I feel like discovering, inventing the linear perspective is a very important thing in art – otherwise art today would be so different and maybe we would still search for the special something, the thing that makes our paintings, drawings look more real.
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