HISTORY 1CC3 Lecture 10: 17th Century Definition Test
30 Jul 2018
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Groups help the power in the dutch political system: needed paintings, equivalent of powerful images of monarch riding horses for flemish. Like a team picture: everyone pays a bit of the money towards the picture. Showed each person with quality, drama, and detail: shows virtue. Chao on an epic scale: portrait painter, many self portraits. Introspective: more self portraits than anyone at the time. Fixed gaze that draws you in: uses thick, visible paint. Uses (cid:498)browns, black, old (cid:523)turned down(cid:524) golds(cid:499: seeks essence and personality of subject, exterior light source (theatrical lighting) Light from the sitter himself: opposite of vermeir using light, theatrical darkness, spotlight= reserved for drama, still a form of chiaroscuro, etchings (ecce homo, browns, anatomy lesson, night watch (correct title=the march out of the company of franz. Example of group portraits: war- like values, polish rider, aristotle contemplating the bust of homer, ecce homo (cid:498)behold the man(cid:499)
