This technique makes use of a “vanishing point” where parallel lines seem to converge on the horizon. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this art technique which depicts objects as smaller if they are further away from the viewer. This technique’s “one-point” form enables a 3D scene to be depicted on a 2D medium.
ANSWER: perspective [accept linear perspective or one-point perspective]
[10h] In this perspective technique, the artist adjusts the length of objects and makes them recede into space. Andrea Mantenga’s Dead Christ is depicted through this technique with large feet and a small head to illustrate him lying away from the viewer.
ANSWER: foreshortening [accept word forms such as foreshorten or being foreshortened]
[10m] This artist was the first to incorporate perspective into relief sculpture with his St. George and the Dragon. This creator of an equestrian statue of Gattamelata created a bronze nude of a boy with a wide-brimmed hat.
ANSWER: Donatello (The unnamed statue is Donatello’s David.)
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