ARTH 0813 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sfumato, Raphael Rooms, Patreon

• School: Temple University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 0813
• Professor: Anna Tuck-Scala

Document Summary

Began the collection of vatican collection of art (?) Second century ad roman copy (original dates to 330 bc - probably made out of bronze) Tree trunk is added in the copy. Apollo just shot an arrow and he is looking towards where it is shot. Out of all the statues he studied, the apollo belvedere was the best one; ironically he. First history of greek sculpture was written by johann winckelmann in the 18th century was looking at greek copies, not the original greek art. Laocoon 160 bc romany copy dating to first century ad. Pliny the elder, described this statue as beautiful b/c it pusated w/ life. Jan 14th, 1606 the laocoon was unearthed. Statue expresses hellenistic style (naturalistic, full of emotion) Laocoon and his sons were worshipping the gods in the temple and snakes were thrown down upon them to punish them for letting information out that they were hiding in a.