Discusses the way shadows were represented - or ignored - by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the illusion of realism or drama in their representations.
Gombrich, one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western Art. This intriguing study was first published in 1995, and is now reissued with additional colour illustrations and a new introduction by Nicholas Penny.
