Does Renaissance   Painting matter for Cinema?

                                                                                                                                                                If you are thinking that we go to cinema only to see what is new on the vision, you might be missing the actual delight of the experience. But, I think we expect more than that. The possibility that we will have a chance to enter into another people’s lives and be part of  the story is what really attracts us. According to first French and then British and American film theorists, this is how cinema works at the level of the unconscious. When we sit a darkened room with a desire to deriving visual pleasure from what we see, the pleasure comes from the narcissistic identification we made with the person on the screen. But what makes possible such an identification for the spectator? It would be no exaggeration to say cinema owes it all to Renaissance Painting. Because in the Renaissance Painting, the spectator becomes the subject of the gaze. 

Artists draw the viewer into their paintings by using a variety of architectural structures, such as inner frames and boundaries. Also this helps painters to create a living atmosphere with very detailed internal spaces and rooms in Renaissance Painting.