Story and Space in Renaissance Art
Subtitle: The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521646635
Subjects: Renaissance art; 15th-16th Century Art; Painting; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - Renaissance; Art / General; Techniques - Painting
First sentence: IN HIS DE PICTURA OF 1435, Leon Battista Alberti likens a painted picture to an open window: A picture, in his view, should be made to seem as if it were a pane of transparent glass through which we look into an imaginary space extending into depth.