[ART 176] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)

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Primary differences between late medieval (14th c) and early renaissance (15th c) Start of transistion from religious to secular foundations for culture. Belief humans can better their situation by means. Centers of cultural and economic power in flux. Prominence of the greater netherlands due to textile industry and strategic trade posting. Faces were similar and fit within the columns. Elements of scrutiny and study in early renaissance art art. Moving more toward representing lines how the eyes work. Describing the way light works in the natural world. Intuitive or scalar perspective (things getting smaller as they go further back) Atmospheric perspective (things in the distance might be softer tones or blurrier/less pronounced) Detail in the surrounding (more truth, more believable) Bottom tier showing donors as realistic people praying to. In middle tier annunciation is angel gabriel talking to mary and. Mary talking back to the gods (words upside-down and backwards) Atmospheric perspective showing the background become more hazy and undefined.