Shadows

Philipp Fröhlich's Exvoto (004H), 2003, tempera on panel, 45,5 x 35 cm

Following the recent death of David Hockney, I came across a video in which he talked about shadows. His argument was that the emergence of cast shadows in Renaissance painting, after their comparatively limited pictorial significance in medieval painting as well as Chinese and Japanese art, was closely connected to the use of optical devices […]

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