CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Claude Lorrain, Landscape Painting
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Mannerist period - between renaissance and baroque period transition period. Half oval dome on building of st. peter"s. Considered a travesty because it was an oval, it had some ornamentation. You can see emotion and drama in the sculpture. Cornaro chapel lots or ornamentation, gold, rich colours, focus on drama. Thinking of aesthetics as examples of affective forces. Something repressed in renaissance period, and it can"t be repressed anymore in. Artemisia gentileschi, first and only woman accepted into the academy, her father was a painter and taught her to paint. Key devices of baroque painting: drama, emotion, light, Vermeer was a master of light, using it to get a feel of calm. Claude lorrain the village fete, this is considered landscape painting, people in front are minor, it"s all about the landscape. Landscape became more important in the background of the paintings. Concentration on nature and landscape at same time as period of enlightenment.
