A CLOSER LOOK/ PICTORIAL SPACE

For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This fiction was central to the artists purpose. Through a close exam ination of paintings from the 1400s to the early 20th century, including works by Uccello, Vermeer, Titian, and Monet, Nicholas Penn y explains in this latest title in the National Gallerys Closer Look series how artists sought to make the fiction of pictorial spa ce compelling...[Read more]