aerial

(adjective)

Of, in, or from the air; atmospheric.

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Examples of aerial in the following topics:

  • Atmospheric Perspective

    • Atmospheric perspective, also known as aerial perspective, refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance.
    • Da Vinci used aerial perspective in many of his paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper .
  • Grave Goods in the Kofun Period

  • Architecture of the Inca

    • The Inca created the city of Cuzco in the shape of a puma, a shape still visible in modern aerial photographs.
    • Top: Plaza de Armas; middle left: Temple of Coricancha; middle right: aerial view of Cusco; bottom left: Sacsayhuamán; bottom right: Cathedral of Cusco
  • The Venetian Painters of the High Renaissance

    • Here, Titian gave a new conception of the traditional groups of donors and holy persons moving in aerial space, the plans and different degrees set in an architectural framework.
  • Landscape Art and Interior Painting

    • These Flemish works had not been particularly realistic, most having been painted in the studio, partly from imagination, and often still using the semi-aerial view style typical of earlier Netherlandish landscape painting, in the tradition of Joachim Patinir, Herri met de Bles, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
  • Flemish Painting in the Baroque Period

    • The style developed from earlier 16th century Flemish landscape paintings, which were not particularly realistic and employed the semi-aerial view typical of Peter Brueghel the Elder.
  • Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

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