The Science of Art

Download or read book The Science of Art written by Martin Kemp and published by Smriti Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost five hundred years the central goal of European painting was the imitation of nature. Many artist and theorists, believing that imitation must be based on scientific principles, found inspiration or guidance in two branches of optics--the geometrical science of perspective and the physical science of colour. In this pathbreaking and highly illustrated book Martin Kemp examines the major optically orientated examples of artistic theory and practice from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.