FAH230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Agostino Tassi, Dress Clothes, Religious Text
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Left hometown to go to rome (city of art) Subject not from religious text or has any iconography, new subject that artist invented: imitate that were in front of him. Imitate nature faithfully: painted himself in this reinvented dress. Sees a boy with a bit of makeup. Title because of the wine leaves on his head. Holding black bow ties together his dress/clothes. Artist also neglected the drawing of faces. (no preparatory drawings) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Left figure is set against a dark background, absorbed in playing the game, doesn"t notice the two other figures that are cheating. Starting to have more complex poses, more figures. Reused the same model in two of the figures. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Asked to paint a religious subject for a public space. Decided to place christ in the dark shadow calling matthew to follow him. (scholars were unsure which figure was matthew)
