ARTH 1101 Lecture 3: ARTH1101 A - 1 February 2017
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Arth1101 the history of art: renaissance to the present. 17th century baroque art & architecture in italy. Finishing off last week high renaissance in italy . With leonardo and michelangelo, he is one of the truly important high renaissance artists working in florence and rome. Generally less liked than leonardo and michelangelo besides the fact he died young, there"s nothing super fascinating about his life. He does demonstrate a high level of renaissance perfection he"s less individualized than the other two, but he"s the perfect ideal. His personality doesn"t come through in his paintings, but he hardly ever makes mistakes. Raphael, frescoes in the stanza della segnatura (1508-1511) He was commissioned to paint all four walls to show the grand extent of human knowledge. Raphael, philosophy (the school of athens), stanza della segnatura (1509-1511) Trying to sum up the importance of ancient philosophy to renaissance ideals.