ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Riace Bronzes, Pantheon, Rome, Roman Sculpture
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Idea of progress, improving the world, starting to become uncertain. According to adam smith, what binds a society together is the sense of compassion and empathy for others: ^thinkers focus on the capacity to feel in the society, e. g. david hume. Until 221 bc, china was made up of different feudal states, until it was unified into one state: for the first time, a standardized way of writing the chinese script was established. The elite needs to be able to write: possible to tell a writer"s emotional state based on the brushstrokes in their calligraphy, writing is very central to chinese culture; historic calligraphers: emperor kangxi, Emperor qianlong, mao zidong: 3 perfections: poetry, calligraphy, painting. Combining them together, starting in traditional china. Training of young artists: accademia degli incamminati: bologna, 1582, by the caracci emphasis on drawing through close observation. Promoted knowledge of perspective, architecture and anatomy: accademia di st. luca: rome, 1593.
