![]() ![]() The ancients began to study the science of optics – and this evolved into a way for artists to mimic the world around them in a more realistic fashion using light and shadow. ![]() Understanding the way that light behaves in a particular environment allows for a painter to create rich, realistic imagery which is closest to our own human interpretation of what we see around us every day. The use of light and shadow was first introduced in the ancient fresco paintings of the Romans (as well as the Greeks). Unfortunately the skill they development for perspective would disappear from art until the fifteenth century! Light and shadow in Roman art Rather, the Roman artists knew what perspective was and how to use it. This level of understanding of perspective demonstrated in Roman painting could not have come about by accident or purely from naked eye observation. However, the painting shows a clear and practical understanding that the lines converge at the viewers line of sight. Detail of the Roman painting from the villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 2nd–1st millennia B.C.E.Roman artists understood how perspective works in a painting.Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 5th–3rd millennia B.C.E. BETH HARRIS: From the very cool colors that this room is painted in, what the artist did was paint an amazing illusion of a landscape, a garden, as though the walls were not walls at all, but views out beyond a fence, beyond a wall, with trees and bushes and fruits and plants and birds.Elena FitzPatrick Sifford on casta paintings Reframing Art History, a new kind of textbook.In the second style era of wall paintings the people of Rome wanted always to be. ![]() ![]()
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