ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Long Shadows (Hunter Novel), Masaccio, Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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Arth 120: week 9 lecture notes (nov 7, 2017) Mendicant order of friars: st. francis and the franciscans: charitable to poor, loved nature would preach to birds and they would listen . Renaissance: ~1300s, a time of rebirth after dark middle ages. Invention of the term gothic , to describe past. In this time period, had classical architecture, sculpture, and (most importantly) texts: felt sense of loss, read about things (ex. paintings) that were no longer around, we first see the renaissance in sculpture. Accusation and judgement of adam and eve, doors of bishop bernward (1015 ce / bronze: bodies seen as shameful, they"ve fallen and are ashamed in hell, unlike classical nude bodies seen as heroic, worshipped. Arena chapel (scrovegni chapel), by giotto, patron: enrico scrovegni (1305-1306 ce: small chapel painted entirely by giotto, originally part of palace, a private chapel, even had private altar and relic.
