Titian's Painting, The Entombment of Christ & His Use of Colour in Art

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This painting is Titian’s, The Entombment of Christ. He painted this topic several times. Titian reduced the contrast of edges in much of his painting. He used paints with a dark value and placed beside some dark values, small areas of light. Titian used this technique to emphasize certain features in his paintings. He also moved viewers through his paintings. The lightest colour is the shroud. This contrasts with the dark tomb. Figures emerge from the dark background. Titian was a master with colour and his works were studied by the Impressionists.

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da Vinci's Painting, "The Last Supper" & Linear Perspective in Art

This painting is Leonardo da Vinci’s, The Last Supper. In the second image I have placed red lines that follow the edges along the walls and ceiling. I could do this with all edges and they would all point to Christ’s head, the vanishing point on the horizon line. I did a prior post about linear perspective. In this painting, da Vinci used one point linear perspective. Linear perspective gives the illusion of 3 dimensional images on a 2 dimensional support. Converging parallel lines move towards a vanishing point(s) on the horizon line (eye level). Da Vinci used linear perspective to emphasize the figure of Christ.

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