La sombra como índice de corporeidad: revisitando las sombras en la historia de la pintura occidental desde sus mitos de origen hasta el Renacimiento
Jamerson Sérgio Passos Rezende
Abstract:Starting from a broad understanding of the shadow as a spatial concept, this essay proposes a bibliographic review on the representations of shadow in the history of traditional Western painting, both in its technical and symbolic dimensions. Through specific images, the text comments on this theme, limiting itself to a time frame, since the founding myths of painting in the Ancient Age until the 16th century. The theoretical clash confronts a pre-established idea that the shadow representations prior to the C… Show more
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