Late sixteenth-century artists generally showed less interest than Renaissance artists in faithfully depicting the natural world. Renaissance standards of space, proportion, and perspective were often abandoned. Examine the different forms of linear perspective, and then analyze perspective in late sixteenth-century paintings. Renaissance artists generally worked in one-point perspective. Did late sixteenth-century artists continue to do so? Did they introduce more vantage points? Or did they drop coherent linear perspective completely? Art>Elements of Art>Line>Linear Perspective>Introduction http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/1/1/3/1.html
Mannerist art often contained crowded, asymmetrical compositions. Examine how composition can be used to guide the eye of the viewer along the picture plane. Then apply those principles to an analysis of Mannerist paintings. How did the Mannerists use line and color to direct viewers’ gazes through their compositions? What was the cumulative effect of these techniques on the compositions of Mannerist painters? Art>Elements of Art>Line>Defining Mass>Composition
One method by which architects develop their structures is through subtractive forms. Explore the subtractive approach. Then analyze Palladio’s work in light of it. What was the typical Palladian plan? Which elements of his structures were made through subtraction? What qualities did this subtractive approach add to his structures? Architecture>Elements of Architecture>Form>Subtractive Form http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/4/1/6.html
