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2.5.1: Videos- Space and Perspective

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    What makes paintings feel as deep as the view from a window or as flat as a wall? Art Explainer 2: Surface and Depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZKqr1Wy45w

    What is chiaroscuro?Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUznhnVd2s

    What is atmospheric perspective? Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8nNuiiZIew

    How one-point linear perspective works. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOksHhQ8TLM

    Learn about the history and meaning of the Last Supper, which depicts the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples. Oil, tempera, fresco, 1495-98 (Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6_wTrkd70

    Raphael, School of Athens, fresco, 1509-1511 (Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Palace, Vatican) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smd-q44ysoM

    What is foreshortening? Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.https://www.youtube.com/embed/_enw8gnHNX4

    Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, c. 1599–1600. Oil on canvas, 11'1" × 11'5". Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesci, Rome, Italy. A moment of spiritual awakening: Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxSjUvh0g8

    Reading: An Introduction to Caravaggio in 5 Paintings. The stories behind some of the Italian Baroque master's most famous works by Google Arts&Culture.


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