You sure Perspective is lacking in the classical art?

 I would add there was no photography, no videos, no printers. Painting was a booming industry, needed in medicine, construction, landscaping, etc...Relaxation of medieval religious strict rules was a step ahead in medicine. Before that, opening up the body to study anatomy was not allowed. Painters were suddenly required to draw internal organs.

Painters were mostly professionals rather than artists. Artistic Renaissance painting was the outcome of multitudes of people making their living as painters one way or another. Some of them, by way of sheer statistics became artists. So, to me, it was the very important role of painting in the growing quickly developing time of the Renaissance that led to the great Renaissance art, so superior and so diffrent to its predecessors.

One of Boticelli's late pictures - "Madonna with Child and Young St. John the Baptist", 1490-95.

Raffaello "The Three Graces", 1505

Originally posted by Karalem Here is a roman painting of Hercules strangling the snake.  It looks like perspective is used. A very advanced piece of art, lacking nothing  in comparison to the renaissance painting.

Yes, it seems that perspective is used, for the middle figure. What time is it done? - I had never seen this picture before.

Laocoön and His Sons

Edited by TheAlaniDragonRising - 31-Aug-2011 at 06:47

Originally posted by Karalem it says it is a Pompeian painting, around 200 AD

Thanks, Karalem!

Artemisia Gentilesci  - "Bathsheba"

Just a typing error, like  we all do when typing fast.
Jiovanni Paolo Fonduli /1468-1484/ - Seated Nymph,

This is a beautiful, and touching painting, the "Small Cowper Madonna", by, Raphael, 1505, and is oil on panel. It is thought it was a gift by Raphael as a wedding present.

Edited by TheAlaniDragonRising - 03-Jan-2012 at 10:41

This beautiful example is the Sistine Madonna, by Raphael, 1513-1514, and is oil on canvas.