Story and space in Renaissance art

Description:

The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative focuses on a puzzling but ubiquitous feature of Renaissance art: continuous narrative, in which several episodes, each including the same characters, are shown in a single space or setting. Continuous narratives have often been considered to be incompatible with the new system of representing space, one-point perspective, which has been traditionally understood to freeze time as it unifies pictorial space. In this study, Lew Andrews reassesses the problem and offers a new interpretation of continuous narrative.

subjects: Italian Narrative painting,  Narrative painting, Italian,  Narrative painting, Renaissance,  Perspective,  Renaissance Narrative painting,  Narrative painting,  Painting, renaissance,  Art, renaissance

Places: Italy