But Jansen also tells us how perspective in painting had been taken to a whole new level of study during the Renaissance (Jansen, …show more content…
Given the coloring and shading, one gets the sense that they are looking at a two-dimensional image. Owever, the painter has actually made extensive use of perspective in order to portray the Angel with the features of human beauty, and to reveal those human features, proportionately. Perspective, in this case, is not necessarily used by the artist to give us a sense of context and distance, so much as to give us a seemingly more realistic (meaning three-dimensional) representation of the