Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature, 1400-1700 |
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... volumes which , despite the stubborn rigidity of architec- ture , expand with the depth of shadows , the interplay of ... volume plastically felt almost with a sense of touch passing around the contour of the figure . Already the statue ...
... volumes which , despite the stubborn rigidity of architec- ture , expand with the depth of shadows , the interplay of ... volume plastically felt almost with a sense of touch passing around the contour of the figure . Already the statue ...
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... volume but not weight , perhaps because , as with Botticelli , the space about them is not fully realized . The same problem takes other forms in architecture and sculpture . When the renaissance architect re - es- tablished the wall ...
... volume but not weight , perhaps because , as with Botticelli , the space about them is not fully realized . The same problem takes other forms in architecture and sculpture . When the renaissance architect re - es- tablished the wall ...
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... volume and contour , color tends to acquire the values of both contour and volume , and forms become illusions shimmering away into " tonal- ity . " The world does indeed shimmer away in some paintings by Titian , and in most paintings ...
... volume and contour , color tends to acquire the values of both contour and volume , and forms become illusions shimmering away into " tonal- ity . " The world does indeed shimmer away in some paintings by Titian , and in most paintings ...
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