VPHB39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ornans, Classical Order, Gustave Courbet
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Ten key words in art history: unpacking methodology. Kanon is greek for measure, rule or law. Polykleitosof argos: the best-known theorist of the classical period. Neither the treatise, nor the original statue has survived, but both were widely discussed in the writings of his contemporaries, and later roman artists made marble copies of the. A regard for a body of work, opinions, and theories intimately associated with the aims, values, and aspirations of the academy. Canonical authority was linked with institutional authority. Associate the authority it garnered as a royal institution with its self-ratifying authority to pronounce on the legitimacy of the canon, thereby welding into an indissoluble whole the question of aesthetic preference and institutional power. Roman marble copy after a bronze original of c. 450-440 bc. In the middle ages between the 5th to 15th century: The church assumed growing spiritual, intellectual, social and political power. Monasteries were sites of learning and art.