HA 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cimabue, Aerial Perspective, Movable Type
18 Oct 2016
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Know for test: cimabue, virgin and child enthroned, 1280 (know the period) Humanism- the belief in the power and potential of every human being. Examples of humanist beliefs: an individual can obtain knowledge thru a proper education and through reasoning, an individual can advance in life through personality and responsibility. 1455 printing press is invented with help of gutenberg. Woodcut process using negative space-positive space gets stamped onto print. Printing created deeper space, modern (the temptations of st. anthony, martin schongauer, 1470-1480, engraving) Visual analysis: mary of burgundy painter, mary at her devotions, hours of mary of burgundy, 1482. Very relaxed and calm, no commotion, many things going on in the other painting but this has basically no movement, moment stopped in time. 2x4 feet because it was not meant for the altar. Hugo van der goes, portinari altarpiece (open), 1474-1476. Portrait of giovanni arnolfini and his wife, giovanna cenami.
