Renaissance

Research in geometry and mathematics

Establish a horizon line and a vanishing point

An art connoisseur

It directs the viewer to look first at the illuminated part of the painting.

mathematics and science

Understanding how beauty is expressed and appreciated.

Western criticism focuses on theory and the philosophy of art.

The duller objects will seem farther away.

The plight of working people

The question is "What is art?"

And the answer is likely to be subjective, because some forms of symbolic or representational art may not have any apparent meaning to some of its audience. The creation of abstract art, "junkyard sculpture" and more recently the ephemeral "performance art" all stretch the definition beyond its classical roots.

The development of the first mathematical system of perspective (apex)

It outline's object's realistically by creating a gentle transformation from one object to another.(:

It Depicts the kind of realistic scene that earlier paintings avioded

No.

However, the sfumato technique was used in the Mona Lisa painting.

It outlines objects realistically by creating a gentle tranformation from one object to another

The purpose of painting is to reduce nature as closely as possible

The communist Russian Government used propaganda paintings showing workers in dramatic poses to install their view on the population. As did the Nazis in their pursuit of what they considered the Aryan Ideal. Both are historical examples of the subject used in propaganda paintings. A large painting of a dictator's face put on public view is another example.

research in mathematics and geometry

An early attempt at perspective (apex)

the use of size to establish the importance of the main subject