aerial
(adjective)
Of, in, or from the air; atmospheric.
Examples of aerial in the following topics:
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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 .
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Grave Goods in the Kofun Period
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance