Italian Renaissance

Question 1

Horizon Line

Answer 1

the fictional line that coordinates the location of the vanishing point, the place where the vanishing point sits

Question 2

Ground Line

Answer 2

lower than the horizon line, the point at which the space illusion ends

Question 3

Three Quarter Portrait

Answer 3

Diagonal alignment, gives a recession into depth, the front and side of the individual are visible

Question 4

Sfumato

Answer 4

Italian word for smoky or hazy. Referring to da Vinci’s style of painting. Creates brooding or pensive quality (in the case of Mona Lisa).

Question 5

Plato

Answer 5

(older one on the center left) wrote about justice, law, loyalty, love. Believed people live in a fractured version of the world, yet the world is perfect. Holds book Timeos, and has vertical compositions

Question 6

Aristotle

Answer 6

(younger in blue on the center right) natural philosopher, wrote the first botany. Believed truth came from the natural world. Holds the Ethics, has horizontal compositions.

Question 7

Euclid

Answer 7

(bent over a chalkboard) Geometer, mathematician. Horizontal chalkboard, earthly grounded math.

Question 8

Pythagoras

Answer 8

abstracted geometry, vertical chalkboard to celestial math

Question 9

Diogenes

Answer 9

the cynical philosopher. Doubt is the starting principle

Question 10

Herakleitus

Answer 10

one of the first atonists, believed the world was made up of atoms, but also believed the world had no meaning, meaning was only given by ones self. Sitting in front at the desk, brooding philosopher