ART H 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthropomorphism, Jacob Van Ruisdael, Louis Le Vau
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Terms: fleur de lis, selective naturalism, etching, camera obscura. Artists: claude perrault, louis le vau, charles le brun. Jules hardouin-mansart: nicolas poussin, peter paul rubens, rembrandt. Claude perreault, louis le vau, charles le brun, louvre east facade, 1667-70. Colonnades reaching out like arms to welcome people back into the church. The pediment - temple front is classical. Columns are classical: louis le vau and jules hardouin-mansart, garden fa ade, palace of versailles, 1668-85. Columns, blind arcade, symmetrical: hall of mirrors. Makes the room seem larger - artificial sense of spacec. Rubens, arrival of marie de"medici at marseilles, 1622-26. Rigid postures and gestures to direct our attention. Personification of france: pictures fit for a queen: peter paul rubens and the marie de" medici cycle. She is the main protagonist in the paintings. Rembrandt, return of the prodigal son, 1665. Tenebrism - extreme use of light and dark. People coming out at us, the audience.
