> Not only did he admire the painters of the early Renaissance, he applied serious analysis of his own to their techniques, observing about the Siennese and Florentine Primitives: “Their insistence on making monuments smaller than men is a result not of an ignorance of the laws of perspective but of a persistence in giving importance to the men and saints whom they depict.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308971696_Albert_Camus_Engages_the_visual_Arts
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> Not only did he admire the painters of the early Renaissance, he applied serious analysis of his own to their techniques, observing about the Siennese and Florentine Primitives: “Their insistence on making monuments smaller than men is a result not of an ignorance of the laws of perspective but of a persistence in giving importance to the men and saints whom they depict.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308971696_Albert_Camus_Engages_the_visual_Arts
#Camus #AlbertCamus on #HumanScale #SacredScale #FlorentinePrimitives #RenaissanceArt #Sienneese