Color saturation changes the intensity of colors

"the idea of humanism is mostly adeptly reflected in renaissance art by a focus on the body itself, especially with sculpture, where many detailed portraits of the human body (such as the david) were created."

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.