ARTH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Immaculate Conception, Guild Of Saint Luke, Sebastiano Ricci
27 Nov 2017
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Pictures at war: painting and the catholic reformation ii: spain france, Spai(cid:374) very re(cid:272)eptive to caravaggio"s style, te(cid:374)e(cid:271)ris(cid:373) (cid:894)already patro(cid:374)s of sebastiano del piombo) Francisco pacheco (1564-1(cid:1010)(cid:1009)(cid:1008)(cid:895) gover(cid:374)or of pai(cid:374)ters" guild a(cid:374)d seville. Academy, author of the art of painting (1649) Only spanish who wrote a treatise on painting. Treatises were always written by churchmen telling artists how to paint. Naples was spanish colony w/its own viceroy: but in art it was naples which colonized spain not the other way around. In seville the wooden sculpture were meant to look exactly like a real dead body. Immaculate conception: birth of the virgin mary w/o the stain of sin. One of the greatest artists (along with bernini, caravaggio, Used pa(cid:272)he(cid:272)o"s daughter (cid:894)also (cid:373)arried her(cid:895) as a (cid:373)use for this painting. Not an idealized figure, it is portrayed after his wife. Virgin mary is brought to life, as an actual person. Much more subtle symbols of the virgin mary.
