ART 1361 Lecture 6: 17th Century Art Continued + Southeast Asian, Chinese and Japanese Art
15 Feb 2018
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Artists started studying bouquets and flowers from all over the world and would often paint bouquets that couldn"t be put together in real life because they bloomed at wrong times. An extremely meticulous painter in that he payed attention to structure and light effects in a room that is incomparable to other paintings. The camera obscura - latin for "dark room" or "dark chamber" A device which projects a scene through a pinhole onto a screen inverted and reversed. In the netherlands in this time period, glass production was a booming market so smaller, more portable camera obscuras were available for the public quite easily. It was thought that vermeer used these devices to paint his paintings as seen by the slightly blurred images within his paintings such as the pearls. The mughal empire extended over what would be modern day india and. At their peak they had 4 million square kilometers of controlled land.
