Like their view of the world, the art of the Middle Ages was flat. The Bayeux Tapestry, the windows of Notre Dame, the early Giotto’s… they are lovely. But they are flat. Their renderings have height and width, but they lack depth. The Medieval mind’s eye could not convey to the hand the three dimensional reality of the world around it. With the Renaissance came the rediscovery of classical perspective. And the beauty of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael exploded.
