01:082:214 Lecture 1: L1 1/18
23 Feb 2017
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Outline: class will consider both northern and southern europe together; communalities and differences. Non-european exposures through trade (ivory in africa), and starting in 15. Reconquista,1492) and outside europe (portuguese expansion into the maghrib); voyages of discovery c. , through conquest within (spanish th. Different histories, languages, but overwhelming majority adhered to same religion, christianity, which did not divide into catholicism and protestantism until c. 1520. Issues like patronage; types of commissions; not works of art, but visual records to which to pray, to commemorate contemporaries, etc. , Artists typically with family workshop & went down generation. Pope alexander xi spanish so therefore he favored the spanish. Venetian empire stretched westward into mediterranean: stopping points, refueling to. Byzantine decor: colored marble, mosaic, gold ground. Finest of byzantine churches at the time. Alhambra: built up from prehistoric fort into religious muslim architecture, honeycomb. Their conquest: show what they are in control of. Remade christian, didn"t destroy muslim part (possibly emblem of triumph)
