Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter born in 1435 who's works were exclusively religious in nature. This painting is titled Annunciation with St. Emidius. What I thought was interesting in this picture in terms of perspective and use of space was how he portrayed a beam of light coming from the heavens in the "back" of the painting all the way to the front and onto Mary's forehead. The buildings that he painted around Mary clearly follow a vanishing point in the distance as we see that the many lines on them are converging towards the arch in the background. Also, the people get progressively bigger as the eye moves from the background of the painting to the foreground. But the light doesn't follow these rules as it breaks through the perspective keeping relatively the same size and shape all the way from the sky to Mary's head. This gives the impression that the Heavens are much closer to the foreground and Mary then what would seem realistic to the eye.
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