PHILOS 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthony Blunt, Toga, Renaissance Architecture
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: poussin"s landscape with diogenes (left >> right) Immersed in technology that has seduced us from nature. Our eyes give us the ability to observe the beautiful world around us. Painting shows the glory of the natural world. City, civilization in background, natural green exemplified. Man drops cup when seeing how natural it is for others to drink water with their own hands. Conflict over when it was painted, but no info written on the significance of painting. Only writing contrasted it to paradise lost. Our interpretation (seeing painting as an epic poem): Can view aesthetically: look only at the beauty, artwork. Shepherd and sheep, morning sun shining on red buildings, figure in red walking along lake along with 6 others. Nude women on rocks pointing at small waterfall on rocks. Water travels to the right, straight line to the swimmer. Invokes different emotions based on what occurs in painting.