Essays on Vanishing Point

Raphael Sanzio was an Italian painter and architect who worked mainly in Florence and Rome during the period of High Renaissance (1483-1520). Raphael is known for his harmonic compositions, the detailed and carefully chosen movements of figures, and his ability to create paintings where the figures stand alone or as part of the whole (Gordon 52). In addition, Raphael was the master of foreshortening and perspective. Foreshortening means to adjust a figure to non-realistic proportions, so that figure gives the impression of being closer to the viewer. Perspective is a similar form of illustration where more distant objects are ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691–1765) was an Italian artist active during the Baroque period. One of his well-known oil on canvas paintings is called Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome (see fig. 1) was painted in 1757. What makes this piece of work so magnificent compared to other Baroque paintings was the fact that this was paintings within a painting; and not only paintings are the ones featured here in Pannini’s work, sculptures are also included in the piece. In addition, just by looking on the scenery, anyone will have a gist on how museum curators back ...