Few pay attention to these small but important details of masterpieces.
While looking at medieval paintings, many may not even notice Many hard people This is justified by the ‘statistical mean’. At present, 10 to 12 percent of the world’s population belongs to the “sedentary” group, and perhaps there were not so many a few hundred years ago.
But why then are people who clearly perceive various objects and tools with their left hand represented above the pictures? Well, just because medieval masters resorted to cheating at work, they used the help of science in painting.
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Caravaggio and Raffaello or Vermeer and Velázquez all used mirrors and lenses to make their representations realistic and authentic. This was as true for the street scene as it was for the human portraits. The only downside to the trick was that the masters did it
On the contrary, they were seen and portrayed as a mirror image.
These techniques, optical solutions, were slowly forgotten after the advent of photography, so we are amazed at the many left-handed people today. The most skilled people, of course, restored the correct position with a mirror, but not everyone cared.
Interestingly, relatively few written records have survived from such “mimicry”, but it is difficult to explain the idealized proportions and perspectives of medieval works in another way. Of course, the painter grabbed the brush and made a masterpiece using technical means.
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