ARTH 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Barrel Vault, Pompeo Batoni, Middle Ages
22 Oct 2017
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Influences on the new classicism and the uses of the roman and greek past. The social function of using the roman and greek past: david )rwin,(cid:499) the grand tour,(cid:499) neo-classicism (phaidon,1997, albert boime, (cid:498)mengs(cid:499), (cid:498)winckleman(cid:499) in art in an age of revolution 1750, petra ten doesschate-chu,(cid:499) from nineteenth century art, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:885): (cid:498)the. The call for abandonment of the flirtatious and seductive subjects that was featured in the salons - wanted morality that would be edifying -- idea of the enlightenment, a public that can be improved. Enlightenment: encyclopaedia: ordered by alphabet not hierarchy, encouraged to think critically about feudal hierarchy. Mengs parnassus, 1761 in the villa albani, rome. Colour oil painting in preparation for mengs fresco in the villa albani, rome (hermitage collection, russia) Fresco: their bodies aren(cid:495)t yellow/fleshy but stained-like. The villa alberni has the temple columns too. He argued that harmonic proportions were register of human centered work, harmonic-proporition relationships between stars, heaven and earth.
