Architectural scenery in 15th-century paintings. Perspective restitution applied to an artwork by Benozzo Gozzoli

Abstract

Perspective and perspective restitution are used in this contribution to analyse the architectures which, in many cases, play an important role in certain artworks, especially in the 15th century. The study focuses on Benozzo Gozzoli’s fresco entitled The Grape Harvest and Drunkenness of Noah, using a methodology that exploits recent progress in the field of knowledge, thus providing new ways to study, analyse, and restore a work of art. In this case, these new tools make it possible to not only gain a thorough understanding of the architectural space and its logic, but also verify the geometric accuracy and spatial realism Gozzoli introduced in his works.