Educational and Scholarly Software for a Visual World

Thinking Egyptian and The Visual Frontier
and
NEW Brunelleschi's Perspective Panel: A New Theory

ArtYes software is now distributed gratis for non-profit use to qualified educational professionals and museum organizations who receive written permission from the author and give credit to the author.

To apply, please contact Prof. Schiferl via email (schiferl@usm.maine.edu) and provide your name, title, and organization. Briefly note how the software will be used and how the software will be linked to your site.

The Visual Frontier:
Linear Perspective in Context

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See the very positive review in Key Guide to Electronic Resources: Art and Art History. (version 1)

Content

  • For Scholars, this software:

    • Briefly mentions the author's new theory on Brunelleschi's experiment with perspective panels. See the separate Brunelleschi software on this site for the scholarly argument.
    • Links religious spatial hierarchies to the development of linear perspective.
    • Queries whether Masaccio's use of linear perspective as a faux architectural chapel echoed the prestige accorded building patrons.
    • Summarizes key issues in research on Renaissance Linear Perspective.

  • For Students, this software:
    • Provides animated demonstrations and definitions of different types of perspective

    • Includes cultural context on the role of religion, economics and science in the development of linear perspective

    • Raises issues about the limitations of linear perspective.

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Approach

Dual presentation with sections devoted to scholarship and sections presented as educational resource.

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Features

  • Designed to stimulate thinking
  • Structured around questions
  • Animated to clarify specific content
  • Substantiated with bibliography and glossary

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Thinking Egyptian:
The Visual Logic of Egyptian Painting

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Content

  • Visualizing the Human Form -- Step by Step Process Revealing the Logic of Egyptian Imagery

  • Constructing the Pool -- Step by Step Process of Visual Problem Solving

  • Comparing Then and Now -- Comparison of Conceptual and Perceptual Visual Logic Demonstrating the Cultural Values and Limitations of Both Systems

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Approach

    Thinking Egyptian AVOIDS the words:

    • primitive, crude, unrealistic
    • stiff, stylized, rigid
    • realistic, scientific, naturalistic
    • strange, mystical, magical.

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Features

  • No Icons to Memorize
  • Focused on Visual Concepts
  • Structured Around Questions
  • Documented with Translated Hieroglyphic Texts
  • Non-linear navigation with Table of Contents
  • Gallery of Images
  • Bibliography and Glossary

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