HAA 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Triptych, Grisaille
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16 Mar 2015
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Landscape, Nature, and Environment, Part 1: Landscape Painting (Europe)
Landscape
•roots in Ancient Greece and Rome
•in medieval times, became a part of a religious context
omore naturalized
omore attention paid to details and recession
•Northern Renaissance artists very interested in landscape
oatmospheric perspective: the farther away the background is, it starts to get more blurry and blue
achieved through the use of oil paintings
Garden of Earthly Delights
•not a pure landscape
•triptych: 3 wings
oleft side: Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden
ocenter: Garden of earthly delights
oright side: hell and damnation
•not created for a church or a chapel
•when closed, image of primordial earth? 3rd day of creation? right after the flood?
ogrisaille: done entirely in gray scale
•creation of Adam and Eve
oit’s beautiful, but starting to be corrupted by lust and evil
•Garden of Earthly delights
ostrange, beautiful structures that look like a hybrid of nature-made and man-made
odisjointed and dreamlike structure of people and animals
•Hell
oscene is very dark and there’s a city burning
oreflects a war scene
osin being punished
ocontains a self-portrait
•shows punishment for pleasure, but at the same time, it entices you to experience pleasure
December Landscape (Hunters in the Snow)
•Book of Hours: small devotional book that says what prayers should be said at each hour, plus has
calendars
•landscape itself is becoming an important part
•trying to replicate the feel of nature
•studied different environments to create a fictional landscape
•human activity paralleled to natural activity
•birds eye view: from the perspective of a bird, above the landscape
Holland
•in 17th century, landscape became the most popular type of painting
•Dutch revolt: based on freedom of religion
oconflict between the people of the Netherlands and Spain
•Dutch landscape became a point of national, patriotic pride