ARH 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Giorgione, Curved Mirror, Golden Clouds
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Giovanni bellini: feast of the gods a. i. Olympian deities appear as peasants enjoying a picnic in the soft afternoon light. Nude woman in a lush landscape beneath a stormy sky a. iii. Golden clouds seem to glow and radiate light into the church: madonna of the pesaro family c. i. Madonna not in the middle: meeting of bacchus and ariadne d. i. Based one of the figures on the recently unearthed laocoon: venus of urbino e. i. One of the most powerful women of the renaissance era f. iv. 60 at the time, had him depict her in her 20"s: pieta g. i. Portrayed himself as saint jerome kneeling before the dead christ. g. iii. Intended it to be for his own tomb. Mannerism: new artistic form of expression in the 16th century b. Represents a departure from the compositions of the earlier renaissance: parmigianno c. i. Self portrait of a convex mirror c. i. 1. c. i. 2.
