FSN 132 Lecture Notes - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Andrea Del Verrocchio
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Lecture 9: painting and sculpture in the 15th century. Costume: not at all typical of medieval costumes. Renaissance: rebirth of classical antiquity (different from brief revivals during. Abstract (11. 36) in terms of use of line (no modeling of light and shade) Greater naturalism compared to earlier medieval art. Sitting down does not reduce his height (11. 37) Pretty architecture - igs treated architecture as decorative as well. Dramatic change with skewed view of entrance. Colour depends on material (ex. glass cannot be pink) Same colour pallet for two manuscript illumination. Fresco painting (giotto) - simpler in terms of amount of material. Difference between north and south, fresco much more important in italy. Bubonic plague or black death 1348 (revival stalls for 50 years or so - begins again around 1500) Written in italian - before this date, written in latin. City halls becoming important at this time. Simplistic in terms of the fact that it was done on fresco.