ART 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Usury, Cimabue, Making Money

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Place: italy, 13th hundred and 14th hundred, independent city states. Not known as italians romans, florentines, venetian. Each has it"s own government within the state. Precursor: maniera greca/ italo = byzantine style. Followed by: more naturalistic depictions of the human body and environment. Nickname, not his actual name ox head. Initiates a bit of a move from static realistic style 3d space, naturalistic human form. Departing from byzantine, using gold to highlight texture and forms and draperies. Not flat gold = person is in heaven. Not to worship actual image, focus on person in heaven. Linear perspective, show he is depicted in space. Greatest and most influential italian painter before the renaissance. Roman was celebrated for realistic treatment of human figure. Robes drape heavily around limbs, no gold highlights but shades to depict heavy shape. Dante put his father in the seventh circle of hell for his ill-gotten gains. Usury worst place in hell, bad thing to do.

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