Linear Perspective In Italian Renaissance

Linear Perspective was first introduced to the art world in the Italian Renaissance. Khan Academy perfectly defined linear perspective as “what renaissance artists had clearly achieved through the careful observation of nature, including studies of anatomical dissections, was the means to recreate the 3-dimensional physical reality of the human form on two-dimensional surfaces”. Linear perspective first started with the human body and then shortly after was used to represent space in paintings that contained architecture. It was created in Florence, Italy in the 15th-century. Many historians believe it is due to the fact that Florence was a culture of trade where mathematics is kind of the base of the city's economy. Those that lived there were trained to think about fractions, space volumes, and commodities in order to buy and sell. The culture became very analytic and rational and art responded to that.
Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance and key figures in the discovery of linear perspective, …show more content…
Both accurately display linear perspective with the use of focal points and orthogonal lines within their work of art. They both managed to create an incredibly convincing deep space within their paining. Masaccio and Velazquez both successfully use naturalism, in the way Jesus Christ’s muscles are being pulled as if he is actually hanging from a cross and also in the way the figures in Las Meninas seem real and in the middle of a real life moment. The figures in both painting appear to be three dimensional and extremely believable. Both artists are trying to relay a message to the viewer within their paintings. Masaccio is trying to remind the viewer of death and that we shall prepare ourselves now for our salvation so that we may have eternity in heaven. Velazquez is almost trying to support the notion of artists being intellectuals, not just a