The Importance Of Perspective In Renaissance Art

What is perspective? How is it evidenced through Renaissance Art? Let’s answer these questions, one at a time, as Jansen and Berger present much to consider. Berger notes that “It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled (Berger, 7).” In many ways, it is this very aspect of perspective which became a pivotal concern in the history of western art, and Renaissance art in particular. Producing works of art that were more faithful to their real, or ideally real standard became a form of aesthetic achievement in the Renaissance. Jansen further writes that the importance of atmospheric perspective in art was realised through many Renaissance paintings (Jansen, 413). Jansen further notes that “Atmospheric perspective is more funamental to our perception of deep space than linear perspective, which records the diminution in the apparent size of objects as their distance from the observer increases (Jansen, 413).” ====================
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