The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries

The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries

Roberto Casati & Patrick Cavanagh at the MIT Press Reader: Painters have long struggled with the difficulties of depicting shadows, so much so that shadows — after a brief, spectacular showcase in ancient Roman paintings and mosaics — are almost absent from pictorial art up to the Renaissance and then are hardly present outside traditional Western art. Here, we embark on a journey that takes us through a number of extraordinary pictorial experim…