ART 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Limbourg Brothers, Tempura, Albrecht Dürer
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Right before storm breaks, women nursing baby on bank infront of river. Using colour to create thick heavy atmosphere, different type of spatial setting. Contemporaries referred to him as the sun amidst small stars . Adept with portraits, landscapes backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. Massively influential in his use of colour. God depicted humanistic, bearded, not much of his body. Some suggestion of land or ground on the earth, he used blue tone to allude to earth. Remains the iconic version of the reclining female nude. Considered to be the original precursor to the pin-up. Born in correggio, a small town in northern italy. His work in the early 16th c inspired great baroque dome and vault decorations in the. Commissioned for the church of san prospero in reggio emilia. First monumental nocturnal scene in european painting. Artistic style a blend of: late gothic art.
