HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vitruvian Man, Vanishing Point, Photorealism
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Renaissance people are artists are mainly catholic, even though the power of the church is declining. Obvious themes: importance of the madonna: in medieval europe there is even a cult of madonna, the catholic church never recognized this cult. Medieval: flat, no dimension, background in absent, background is usually gold (suggests heaven), heavy covered in clothing (bodies seen as inherently sinful), legitimate art has people completely covered (minus face and hands) Renaissance: more three-dimensional, jesus has less clothing, background is present, people are much less heavily clothed (importance on greek art: perfection of the human body), glorification of the human form. Uccello st. george (knight fighting dragon) shows illusion, vanishing. Botticelli primavera: uccello = perspective, used mathematical principles to come up with ideas of creating vanishing points to create and accurate picture of what"s in front of him, not just a painter a mathematician.
