Category: Renaissance

Thinking about closed and open form pictures; or how old art history terms can still be useful

Daniela Bowker

If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s passé. No one really tries to objectively compare one painting against another using formal concepts anymore. However, formal analysis—or the concepts that it identified—does still present some interesting ideas, especially for photographers. Swiss art historian Heinrich […]

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Historically-inaccurate drone speared out of the sky by renaissance festival actor

John Aldred

As if eagles and nets weren’t already enough for drone users to worry about, now we have to deal with javelins, too. The eagle eyed amongst you might’ve noticed the historically-inaccurate porta-potties in the background of the image above, but it seems they managed to escape the wrath of participants at a renaissance festival in Russia recently, unlike this […]

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Photographer Recreates Renaissance Paintings Using Auto Mechanics As Models

Udi Tirosh

Paying homage to the great masters of art is not an easy task. Photographer Freddy Fabris took a stab at it. However, paying homage does not mean duplicate, and Freddy added his own touch to the painting. Instead of simply recreating The Last Supper, Creation Of Adam and The Anatomy Lesson with Renaissance models, Freddy used auto […]

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