Renaissance artists, in developing the techniques of drawing in perspective, laid the groundwork for this mathematical topic.

The 15th and 16th centuries saw a small number of British castles develop into still grander structures, often drawing on the Renaissance views on architecture that were increasing in popularity on the continent.

Chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone towards light using white gouache, and towards dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.

Although the ceiling is riotously rich in illusionistic elements, the narratives are framed in the restrained classicism of High Renaissance decoration, drawing inspiration from, yet more immediate and intimate, than Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling as well as Raphael's Vatican Logge and Villa Farnesina frescoes.

The drawing shows proof that nude figures were used in the conception of works during the Early Renaissance.

With the superior understanding of perspective drawing achieved in the Renaissance, Italian painters of the late Quattrocento such as Andrea Mantegna ( 1431 – 1506 ) and Melozzo da Forlì ( 1438 – 1494 ), began painting illusionistic ceiling paintings, generally in fresco, that employed perspective and techniques such as foreshortening in order to give the impression of greater space to the viewer below.

In keeping with the contents intended to be displayed within, the interiors take their inspiration principally from the Italian Renaissance, although the house also contains drawing rooms and cabinets decorated in the gilded styles of late 18th century France.

In February 1918, Janco was even invited to lecture at his alma mater, where he spoke about modernism and authenticity in art as related phenomena, drawing comparisons between the Renaissance and African art.

In the late Gothic / early Renaissance era, silverpoint emerged as a fine line drawing technique.

On May 11 and 12 of that year, Phyllis and her husband Ron Patterson, presented the first " Renaissance Pleasure Faire " as a one-weekend fundraiser for radio station KPFK, drawing some 8, 000 people.

The 19th century saw a fragmentation of English architecture, as Classical forms continued in widespread use but were challenged by a series of distinctively English revivals of other styles, drawing chiefly on Gothic, Renaissance and vernacular traditions but incorporating other elements as well.

The wheel and axle is one of six simple machines identified by Renaissance scientists drawing from Greek texts on technology.

At the turn to the Renaissance, Gutenberg ’ s invention of mechanical printing made possible a dissemination of knowledge to a wider population, that would not only lead to a gradually more egalitarian society, but one more able to dominate other cultures, drawing from a vast reserve of knowledge and experience.

In the words of the art critic Marco Livingstone, Arikha " bridged the modernist avant-garde of pure abstraction with traditions of observational drawing and painting stretching back to the Renaissance and beyond.

In Renaissance art, drawing on classical stories of Orpheus, the shepherds are sometimes depicted with musical instruments.

Scottish Baronial architecture ( sometimes Baronial style ) is a style of architecture with its origins in the sixteenth century, drawing on the features of Medieval castles, tower houses and the French Renaissance châteaux.

Katz next blows up the drawing into a " cartoon ," sometimes using an overhead projector, and transfers it to an enormous canvas via " pouncing "— a technique used by Renaissance artists, involving powdered pigment pushed through tiny perforations pricked into the cartoon to recreate the composition on the surface to be painted.

On the left side of this lane is still visible a rare example of Casa Graffito ( drawing technique ) | Graffita of the Renaissance.

Bacchus, formerly Saint John the Baptist, is a painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, based on a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).

He was deeply engaged in the lives of each of his four children, continuously available to them, showing and explaining art, history, city and country life, philosophy, Roman ruins and medieval and Renaissance efforts to civilize a damaged human history.

Augustus-The figure of Augustus was not discovered until the 1903 excavation, and his head was damaged by the cornerstone of the Renaissance palazzo built on top of the original Ara Pacis site.

This marked the end of the Roman Renaissance, damaged the papacy's prestige and freed Charles V's hands to act against the Reformation in Germany and against the rebellious German princes allied with Luther.

There it was attached to a French Renaissance chateau, which burned down in 1962 ; however, the chapel was not damaged in the fire.

Strongly influenced by the music of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, the album's songs reflected on lost love and damaged relationships ( including the breakdown of the band's relationship with their former manager ).

Under the " Kim Ki-young Renaissance Project ", the Korean Film Council ( KOFIC ) has worked to find Kim's lost films and to restore those that are damaged.

Renaissance relief of the Queen of Sheba meeting Solomon-gate of Florence Baptistry

The Tudor gatehouse and astrological clock, made for Henry VIII in 1540 ( C on plan above ) Two of the Renaissance bas relief s by Giovanni di Maiano can be seen set into the brickwork.

He appears to have been a favourite in the works Luca della Robbia, and one of the finest examples of Renaissance art includes relief carvings of the saint, which can be seen on the oratory of Perugia Cathedral.

But in the Renaissance England Marlowe among the University Wits introduced comic relief through the presentation of crude scenes in Doctor Faustus following the native tradition of Interlude which was usually introduced between two tragic plays.

Some churches had massive pairs of bronze doors decorated with narrative relief panels, like the Gniezno Doors or those at Hildesheim, " the first decorated bronze doors cast in one piece in the West since Roman times ", and arguably the finest before the Renaissance.

Renaissance relief of the Queen of Sheba meeting Solomon-gate of Florence Baptistry

The revival of low relief, which was seen as a classical style, begins early in the Renaissance ; the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, a pioneering classicist building, designed by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450, uses low reliefs by Agostino di Duccio inside and on the external walls.

Since the Renaissance plaster has been very widely used for indoor ornamental work such as cornices and ceilings, but in the 16th century it was used for large figures ( many also using high relief ) at the Chateau of Fontainebleau, which were imitated more crudely elsewhere, for example in the Elizabethan Hardwick Hall.

Very high relief re-emerged in the Renaissance, and was especially used in wall-mounted funerary art and later on Neo-classical pediments and public monuments.

In the 15th century, a new classicising style arose, and early Renaissance cassoni of central and northern Italy were carved and partly gilded, and given classical décor, with panels flanked by fluted corner pilasters, under friezes and cornices, or with sculptural panels in high or low relief.

Renaissance artists such as Mantegna and Polidoro di Caravaggio often used grisaille as a classicising effect, either in imitation of the effect of a classical sculptured relief, or of Roman painting.

Through his career Augustus Saint-Gaudens ' made a specialty of intimate private portrait panels in sensitive, very low relief, which owed something to the Florentine Renaissance.

The Renaissance sculptures and the relief on the tympanum representing Christ's Entry into Jerusalem were made by Lope Marin in 1548.

In the 15th century Bishop Johann Porečanin ordered in Italy a Renaissance relief for the antependium of the altar, made of gilded silver.

A very elaborate tomb was commissioned for Gaston in Milan from the workshop of Agostino Busti, which despite never being completed and assembled remains a key work in art history, and especially French Renaissance art, with ( as planned ) classicising relief panels of his campaigns around the base of the sarcophagus, surmounted by a more traditional recumbent effigy.

Madonna of the stairs ( or Madonna of the steps ) is a relief by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, created around 1491.