Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stamp, Gavin

Titel

ARCHITECTURE

Ist Teil von

• Apollo (London. 1925), 2014-07, Vol.180 (622), p.78

Ort / Verlag

London: The Spectator Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The National Gallery's current 'Building the Picture'exhibition offers much insight into the role of architecture in 15th-century Italian painting-and the principles of perspective that it encapsulates gesture towards the entire history of architectural perspective. In Carlo Crivelli's painting of The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius (Fig. 2), painted in 1486 for the town of Ascoli Piceno, we can see both exterior and interior space: the Virgin in her room behind a grilled window, struck by the Holy Spirit as a golden shaft coming down from heaven, and the local saint and other figures in the street outside. [...]most of the paintings in the exhibition employ a fixed central viewpoint instead of the multiple viewpoints typical of medieval art, and exploit the new discovery of linear perspective.