A Closer Look: Pictorial Space
A Closer Look: Pictorial Space
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Author(s): Penny, Nicholas
ISBN No.: 9781857096163
Pages: 96
Year: 201709
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 20.70
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose. Through a close examination of paintings from the 1400s to the early 20th century, including works by Uccello, Vermeer, Titian, and Monet, Nicholas Penny explains in this latest title in the National Gallery's Closer Look series how artists sought to make the fiction of pictorial space compelling, not only through the use of linear or aerial perspective, but also through the choice and intensity of color, the variations in light, and the texture of the painted surface. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press.


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