birth-day-cake! birth-day-cake! =)

There were only a few paintings in the Palazzo Barberini that were off on their linear perspective and even fewer that were obvious or that I was certain about. You basically had to walk in circles, upside down and side ways to see where the malfunction was. However now that I know what to look for I’m always going to be looking for inconsistencies in paintings. The painting I chose is one I would imagine a lot of people did because once you realized the problem, it stuck out like a sore thumb. In Tinoretto’s “Christ and the Adulteress” the linear perspective is all messed up. The first thing that I was able to pin point was the columns. Especially if you stand to the right of the painting you can see that the rows of columns were not straight at all. They are all heading to different places which made me really dizzy if I looked at it for too long trying to figure out where they were going haha. Next the tiles aren’t going in the same direction as the columns, specifically the first row of columns after the vault. This row appears to be pointing in a different direction than the blue and white tiles. This is made even more obvious by the vault which is pointing straight ahead. Have you ever seen a building whose ceiling pattern is straight, the columns pointing in a different direction as well as not uniform and the floor patter pointing another way? Probably not unless you were in a fun house ha. I do have to say that it makes the painting a little fun because it’s all messed up. I actually liked it more once I realized it was all wrong.