HAA 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Très Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry, Jacob Van Ruisdael, John Singer Sargent
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Garden room from the villa of livia, prima porta late first century bce. Use of atmospheric perspective to enhance allusion of depth. Georges trubert, st. john the evangelist on patmos, ca 1480-90, tempera and gold on parchment. Looks like a map symbol of power/privilege. Pieter bruegel the elder, december landscape, 1565, oil and tempera on wood & peasant wedding, ca, 1566-69. Depicts what life was like in the dutch republic. Bruegel has paintings of different seasons and environments. Logic of images reveal more about the painting than is there (depth of painting) Limbourg brothers, february page, from les tres riches heures du duc de. Jacob van ruisdael, view of harleem from the dunes at overveen, ca. Forefront is a rural area, background is a city. One of the first people to depict a tree so accurately that you can tell the species of the tree (realism)