Renaissance For Real

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It’s wonderful to be back guest posting on the very happening Art History Blog, 3 Pipe Problem. The original purpose and symbolism of the Ghent Altarpiece is explored with insights from the 2012 Van Eyck studies symposium in Brussels.

Leonardo’s expression of energy within natural systems, and the enhanced immersion of natural weather effects in contemporary games.

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Just for a change of pace this month, a review of the Alte Pinakothek’s Perugino: Raphael’s Master exhibition in Munich. Perugino’s Northern influence, particularly Memling is explored.

I’m once again very excited to have the opportunity to guest post on the Art History Blog everybody’s talking about, 3 Pipe Problem.

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This month I’m thrilled to guest post on the fantastic art history blog 3 Pipe Problem. Modern 3D incarnations of sfumato, chiaroscuro, cangiantismo, unione and Cennini colouring are explored.
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Well in advance of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery London in Nov 2011, I’m pleased to have a chance to focus on Leonardo’s approach to colour blending, sfumato. I’m once again mining Marcia Hall’s comprehensive book Colour and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting. Colour is so central to my [...]

While I was in Antwerp, Belgium, a few weeks ago, I became inevitably immersed in the world of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), the city’s most celebrated citizen. Although his art takes me beyond the boundaries of the early Renaissance and into the Baroque, Rubens was formed by the guild and workshop system of [...]

Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance exhibition at The National Gallery, London (until 30 May 2011) is a must see for devotees of the Northern Renaissance as well as 3D spacial illusion. Through realism and visual metaphor, the intimate portraits in particular come to life, 500 years after their creation.  The exhibition begins with an introduction to the [...]

Immersion for seekers of new realities often starts with images that surround.  3D films and TVs, augmented reality apps, and surround vision goggles all provide a sense of another world supplanting reality.  This world is one that may also include other sensory dimensions, but the primary building block is visual conjuring. At a basic level, [...]

Following on from Math for Art’s Sake I, in this post I look again at geometry in the service of art, this time looking at Microsoft’s Kinect sensor technology and Piero della Francesca’s orthographic projection maps of the human head.   Viewing a ‘Kinected’ object through infrared light reveals ‘a dissolution of surfaces into a constellation [...]

“He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”  Leonardo da Vinci. Artists of the Italian Renaissance were driven to understand the perfection of math and the natural laws of geometry (notably linear perspective) in order to create beauty in representational art. There are some art movements where math is [...]