The Formation of Artistic-Compositional Theory at the Renaissance

The article examines the emergence of the concept of “composition” as an artistic and constructive category at the Renaissance. The Quattrocento people came to focusing their attention on the material, the man-created. The basic thoughts of space, time, light, and many more changed. The demand arose for mastering space, time, form, and nature itself. The article shows how all this reversed the approach to the artistic endeavour. The illusion of depth became pronounced in the works of that time. It came into conflict with the plane layout. A need arose to overcome this contradiction, which required new means of artistic expression. Visual art became a learning tool. This brought about the emergence of the category of Mystery taken as an aesthetic, emotional and imaginative limit to artistic activity.