Choosing a subject:
For this part of the course a focus on the method of chiaroscuro requires choosing an image or painting from the Renaissance period for study. To ‘find a subject containing a figure or figures based on either a Renaissance painting or a photograph you have taken yourself’, I began by visiting my local library. I found three books of interest on the Renaissance period and specific artists within that movement. They were as follows;
- Renaissance, by Christopher Masters
- Botticelli by Susan Legouix
- Van Eyck The Complete Works by Amanda Simpson