Lines are usually used in every art work and in Mostaert’s painting you can see the use of lines in various ways. The clouds in the background of the painting have many different lines fading away. The cross in which Jesus is hung on is also an example of how actual lines are being used vertically and horizontally. The author of gateways of art, states there are two types of lines ( DeWitte 54). There are the actual lines and the implied lines. The actual lines are lines we are able to see in continuous marks. The “implied line give us the impression we are seeing a line where there is no continuous mark” (54). In this painting you are able to see the actual line example, all the lines have a continuous mark. The gold flag to the right side
