ART HIS 40B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sfumato, Lisa Del Giocondo, Aerial Perspective
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Main altar, santa lucia dei magnoli, florence elaborate tiles on floor diminutive, continuity creates familiar settings: virgin largest figure, most important, virgin womb = focus. Italy and the shared language of taste and judgment: Secular education new class of men with money and leisure (merchants, lawyers, notaries, bankers) began to learn latin, greek, and hebrew and pursue education in secular context. Laymen (men unaffiliated with religious institutions) began to read works of philosophy, science, and literature from classical antiquity and the middle ages. Individualism: man increasingly seen as master of himself, an individual who could rise above others and is capable of unique achievements through education and learning. Sometimes described as shift from a medieval, god-centered world view to a rennaisance, man-centered world view: man can control his own destiny and reach enlightenment, leonardo and the vitruvian man man centered.
