ARTH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Consciousness, Raphael Rooms, Urbanism
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Single point perspective drawn onto really: against the iconoclasm of. Learning objective: to think about how the medium is part of (cid:498)the message(cid:499) in the. What is mediated by media: culture: becomes a way for articulating wealth, consciousness. How the catholic church retaliates the protestant reformation, picks up the symbolic form and uses it as a device to further *** its immense wealth and power. Pietro perugino, christ entrusting the keys to st. peter, 1482. St. peter"s square, vatican city, rome, completed ca. (cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:889)(cid:882)s. Took (cid:884)(cid:882) years to complete, around (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882) years after the council of the trent"s decision to use art and culture as a weapon. Certain themes are repeated again and again in art. Parable in old testament: triumph over larger-than-life forces (took down a giant with a sling shot) even though oneself is finite. Bernini seems to very clearly understand himself as operating in dialogue with. Michelangelo"s david is distorted on purpose, nothing mimetic.
