CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gutenberg Bible, Middle Ages, Making Money

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13 Jun 2018
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Visual Communication
Linear perspective
Sculpture and architecture
The Printing Press and Moveable Type
Social impact
Protestant reformation
Reading public
Art and technics and information
News periodicals
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Linear Perspective
Means of visual communication
Standardized systematized way to represent something
Render 3D scenes into 2D
Formula: once learned, can replicate images onto flat pieces of paper
Sculpture and Architecture
In middle ages, communication still largely controlled by catholic church (in europe)
Small number of people had access, learned through talking with people, pictures,
sculptures, and architecture
Pilgrimages: some object deemed spiritual… saw messages in architecture (coming
from church) → Tympanum of Saint-Lazare, c.1120-1135
Still primarily illiterate culture
Alphabet effect starts to take shape in 1400s in development of printing press
PRINTING PRESS AND MOVEABLE TYPE
New Medium: Paper
Invented in China in 1st century
Pulp from mulberry bark, hemp, fishnets, rags
Brought to Europe in 12th C.
In wide use in Europe by 15th C.
Printing/movable type already existed, Gutenberg put them together
The Gutenberg Bible, 1454-55
Done in German rather than Latin → rise to spread of literacy and information as
you can print in different languages
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Formula: once learned, can replicate images onto flat pieces of paper. In middle ages, communication still largely controlled by catholic church (in europe) Small number of people had access, learned through talking with people, pictures, sculptures, and architecture. Pilgrimages: some object deemed spiritual saw messages in architecture (coming from church) tympanum of saint-lazare, c. 1120-1135. Alphabet effect starts to take shape in 1400s in development of printing press. Pulp from mulberry bark, hemp, fishnets, rags. In wide use in europe by 15th c. Printing/movable type already existed, gutenberg put them together. Done in german rather than latin rise to spread of literacy and information as you can print in different languages. Catholic church indulgences, making money off of it. Printing press allowed them to do it faster. Catholic church increasingly becoming a mediator between god and the people. Martin luther nails up his 95 theses preached for bible as sole document of truth (not as bible mediated/controlled by church)

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