Reading: Fill in the Blanks — practice #rfib-008

Renaissance painters transformed European art by mastering the illusion of depth on a flat surface. Using a technique called perspective, they could make distant objects appear to drop here into the background convincingly. Careful study of light and shadow allowed them to give figures a striking sense of drop here. Wealthy patrons eagerly drop here these works to display their status and taste. The innovations of this period continue to drop here artists and architects today.