ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hair Highlighting, Scopophilia, Oil Painting
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Scopophilia: person"s deriving aesthetic pleasure from looking at something and from. Compare christ"s nude body in rogier van der weyden"s prado deposition. Nude body as evidence of pain/suffering (religious) On his side: final wound of testing if he is alive still. Blood streams to groin first wound of circumcision by jewish tradition. Nude body as display of pleasure (secular) Compare to titian"s venus of urbino (1538) Oil painting, tactile and fluidity, brush strokes in hair highlighting or fabric. Nude reclining woman on linens with same hand placement. Setting differences: in landscape vs. in room. Didactic form of women nature instead of culture. Two maids putting away cloth into cassone. Finding of the body of st. mark , c1564-65. Discoveries of relics of st. mark (body parts) Shows acquiring the relics of st. mark. St. mark: one of the four gospels, patron saint of venice, held relics of st. mark. Changing the vanishing point: off center and higher up.
