ART 1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anamorphosis, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli
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Painted byzantine style icons (devotional art often using gold leaf) At its height, roman art favored extreme realism, portraying people as they really are, without any idealism: wrinkles, warts, big ears, etc. As the roman empire declined, due to barbarian invasions, art aesthetics changed. Ties to greek and roman aesthetics are completely severed. Broke away from the stiff rigidity of icon painting. David is the first free-standing nude sculpture made since roman times. Painted classical scenes and portraits of contemporary people. Botticelli fell in with a cult leader, girolamo savonarola who exiled the medici and briefly ruled florence. He stopped painting and threw some of his earlier works in the bonfire of the vanities. Sculpture, painter, architect, and poet preferred sculpture. Did not run a workshop and preferred to work alone. Gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) the (cid:374)i(cid:272)k(cid:374)a(cid:373)e (cid:862)the ha(cid:374)g(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863) for his gri(cid:373) perso(cid:374)ality. Depicted, biagio da cesena, a church official as a demon. Weird sense of humor and dark apocalyptic visions.
