HISTART 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Absolute Monarchy, Think Global, Killing Machine
28 Feb 2017
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Chauvet cave, c. 32000 bc : 34,000 yrs old humans have been driven to make art forever. Look at the world at that time the way the artist saw it. Gold disk with etched 100 images orbiting the earth idea that this is the last human artwork that will ever exist (orbits until earth crashes into sun) Issue of time what is it to create a work that depicts humanity. 34000 years ago and will last perhaps beyond the human race. 1350-1450 events: modern bank system, church crisis, peasant revolts, plague, guttenberg invents, printing press, geek classics exported to europe (italy center for roman classics and major port) Humanism: placing human-centered life before spiritual and god beliefs. Huge church meant for the gods/ human bodies are tiny - meant to overwhelm people. Pointed arches point towards the heaven eyes are drawn up. Rounded arches and flat ceiling keeps your eyes within the space.
