Martha Fiennes | ‘Nativity’ | Building the Picture

Acclaimed film director, Martha Fiennes, reveals how architecture in Italian Renaissance painting inspired her groundbreaking computer-generated artwork, ‘Nativity.’

Fiennes talks about the ruined architectural setting of Sandro Botticelli’s ‘The Adoration of the Kings’, about 1470-5, and with technical producer, Pete Muggleston, explains how they created an ever-changing, randomly generated environment to suggest a continuous cycle of decay, rebirth and life.

This film is one of five giving contemporary perspectives on the National Gallery exhibition ‘Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting’ (30 April – 21 September 2014).

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http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/building-the-picture

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