A Closer Look: Pictorial Space

by Nicholas Penny and National Gallery London

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 artist's purpose. Through a close examination of paintings from the 1400s to the early 20th century, including works by Uccello, Vermeer, Titian, and Monet, Nicholas Penny explains in this latest title in the National Gallery's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857096169
• ISBN13: 9781857096163
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: National Gallery London
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.2"