Taddeo Gaddi, The Angelic Announcement to the Shepards, 1328
The 14th-century artist, Taddeo Gaddi, was intrigued by light and its effects and so he channeled this fascination into his oil paintings. "The Angelic Announcement to the Shepards" shown above, is considered to be the first image in the history of art to depict a scene at nighttime.
It is interesting to contrast Gaddi's artwork with "Once Night Falls" featured at the top of this thread by Hirofu Iso / Komainu as one can envision how art has transmuted from The Medieval Period to The Twentieth Century; contemporary art often shies away from traditional painting techniques and dips into a diverse range of multimedia in the creation of conceptual installations that generate an experiential atmosphere for the viewer. |
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