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Renaissance
Martin Kemp: Starting with Brunelleschi, Exploring Perspective and Light in the Renaissance
In the early 15th century, the invention of perspective provided artists with a technique grounded in optics for spatial measurement. Perspective became an esse...
da Vinci
Oxford professor Martin Kemp: Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" lost in controversy
On November 15, 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" was sold at Christie's auction house in New York for US$450 million, becoming the &...