Hierarchical proportion

[The title of this entry should be changed to "Hierarchical Scale"]

Nebamun hunting birds in the marshes using cats, fragment of a scene from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC.[1]

Hierarchical scale is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural size or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork.

For example, in Egyptian times, people of higher status would sometimes be drawn or sculpted larger than those of lower status.

During the Dark Ages, people with more status had larger proportions than serfs. During the Renaissance images of the human body began to change, as proportion was used to depict the reality an artist interpreted.

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  • Artforms by Preble, Preble, Frank; Prentice Hall 2004
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