Piero della Francesca

The Flagellation of Christ is an art piece by Piero della Francesca in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marchein Urbino, Italy. It consists the Flagellation of Christ by the Romans during his Passion and three men in the painting. They are admidst a conversation and seem like they haven’t been wavered at all by the whole procession. It depicts three men who seem completely unbothered by the religious practice that takes place in their close vicinity. According to an interpretation still upheld in Urbino

paintings were closely tied to sacred paintings as an item to assist worship or to retell the narrative of the Bible. Moreover, the Renaissance was also a time of fascination with realism, exampled by Vasari’s praise of the bare torso in the Piero della Francesca as perfection “as an anatomic study”. Art is also complicated in that it “grounds its persuasiveness in the “truth” of optical experience” (Pardo, Giotto and the Thing Not Seen). The addition of perspective allows sacred paintings to appear

Mathematics has always been very prominent in art since the beginning of time. Mathematical tools such as the Golden Ratio and the De Divina Proportione have helped shape the art we know today. Famous artists and mathematicians such as Piero De Francesca, Polykleitos, and M. C. Escher are the founders of the amazing works of art we are familiar with. Even modern day mathematics has given art a new form, with Fractal Art. Without math, some of the art we have today would not exist. In the ancient

Following the introduction of the linear perspective from Brunelleschi, his pervasive influence began showing up in many artist’s works. The religious works of Masaccio, Piero della Francesca and Botticelli would incorporate these new mathematical and geometry based ideas, further changing the view of pictorial linear views in art. Tomaso di ser Giovanni was an incredible artist whose career was cut short at an early age (Adams, p.87; Bendico, 2013) Born in Florence, Masaccio was a contemporary of

I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Della Robbia exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts twice this semester. This was one of the first major exhibitions for Della Robbia in the United States. The Della Robbia series began with Luca della Robbia in the 15th century, and this exhibition showcased 46 works of his family and associated workshops. The exhibition itself was breathtaking and unique. The creamy, white gazed terracotta statues and displays were breathtaking and unique in their

• The characters above are all of mythological ideas, some possessing some biblical traits such as Venus with the halo created by the reflection of the orange grove. • The red lines drawn on the image show the commonly used technique of perspective leading to the vanishing point which is the centre of the image. This is where Venus stands, which is a technical element conveying her importance within the painting. • The impeccable attention and detail on Flora’s face indicates that he was of the

paintings as an item to assist worship or to retell the narrative of the Bible. the renaissance was also a time of fascination with realism, exampled by Vasari’s praise of “the bare torso for its perfection as an anatomic study” in regard to the Piero della Francesca. Art is also very complicated in that it “grounds its persuasiveness in the “truth” of optical experience” (Pardo, Giotto and the Thing Not Seen). The addition of perspective allows sacred paintings to appear three dimensional, adding a complexity

The discovery of the perspective’s rules in visual arts is celebrated as one of the major turning points in human history, which fueled centuries-long advancement and developments in both artistic creations and scientific or engineering inventions as the foundation for many breakthroughs of the modern times. It was the bridge between the middle ages and the early modern period or more specifically the fifteenth century, during Italian Renaissance, when the law of perspective was first introduced

If we want to make changes in our Lives, then we will have to look at the causes and the way we are using our minds, the way we are thinking. For, “No two things can occupy the same space at the same time. You can’t have a positive thought & hold on to the negative one. Choose one.” ~Louise Hay. We all have the will and heart, the courage and braveness to let go of the past and to learn from it, and not to dwell in it. So, after all how can something, be both positive and Negative at the same time

Mathematical Order in the Artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci A large portion of the Italian Renaissance was an obsession with finding order in everything in the universe. Its primary actors sought to show nature as orderly and fundamentally simple. Leonardo Da Vinci, the epitome of the Renaissance Man, was not the first to apply these ideas of geometric order and patterns to art, but he may be the most well known. Da Vinci used mathematical concepts like linear perspective, proportion and geometry