ART HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cosimo De' Medici, Florence Cathedral, Filippo Brunelleschi

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Art History
• Course: ART HIST 202
• Professor: Dan Fuller

Document Summary

Accurate representation of the human body, mathematical proportion. 15th c. italians were able to use ruins for inspiration. Humanism: idea that philosophy, education, and expansion of knowledge develops; contrast with the divine in the medieval era. Medici: powerful banking family that later became dukes of flore(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)cosi(cid:373)o (cid:858)il. Perspective: technique used to represent 3d objects/spaces on a 2d surface in a way that looks accurate and realistic as the eyes see it. Aerial or atmospheric perspective; distant objects look bluer and blurrier to the eyes. Linear perspective: mathematical system of creating space that allows for 3d space on a 2d surface. Convergence of orthogonal lines on a vanishing point (christ) The closer to the viewer,the bigger they are; the smaller an object is, the more far away it is: masaccio, holy trinity, santa maria novella, florence, italy. Nearly life size, traces of gold in the bronze. Stood in courtyard with judith and holofernes i(cid:374) the medi(cid:272)is(cid:859) (cid:272)ourtyard.