LIGHT AND SHADOW IN PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION: LESSONS FOR ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING

Abstract

This article brings the approach of pictorial’s
shadows sense the medieval period up to the
German’s Expressionismo on the earlies twentieth
century. The changes of one active agent on art,
the light. We will use examples from artists like
Cimabue, Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Jacques-
Louis David, Claude Monet and Edvard Munch to
identify how these artists represented light and
compare them with urban and architectural scenes.
The intention is to extract from art some ways how
to use shadows in our spaces.
Keywords: Shadows; Light; Art; Pictorial lighting;
Architecture.