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The Reading Images Project |
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The Reading Images Project |
Style: Space
| Space is the representation of
a three-dimensional world. Three- dimensionality is suggested by the treatment of both the setting and of the forms that are placed "within" that setting. Techniques that suggest three-dimensionality include various forms of perspective, diminution, recession, overlapping, cast shadows, modeling, and foreshortening. Raphael's Space |
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The forms
in the School of Athens are represented in a way that gives an impression
of mass. Each figure is modeled to imply the fall of light and shadow
on a volume. They cast shadows and move freely in an implied space.
Their bodies are arranged so that some parts are foreshortened (or represented
receding into space).
Raphael's creation of three-
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| Modeling:
Diogenes is lit from the right, so that the left side of his body
is cast into shadow. Foreshortening: Diogenes's right thigh appears to recede into space; the knee seems closer to us than the hip. Cast shadows: shadows fall from his legs onto the steps. |
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