ARTH 2550 Lecture Notes - Sacred Conversation, History Painting, Domenico Veneziano

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Alberti, facade of santa maria novella, c. 1461-70, florence (7. 23: pre-existing gothic foundation was transformed into something roman. Michelozzo di bartolomeo, palazzo medici (now medici-riccardi), florence, for. Alberti (designer) and bernardo rossellino (builder), palazzo rucellai, fa ade c. 1452-58, florence (7. 2: generalization, no rustication, applied pilasters with bays running vertically= symmetrical harmony. 3 orders of greek architecture like coliseum: doric, ionic and corinthian. Doric most masculine and appears on the first level of buildings. Corinthian representing the divine; the most decorative and light. Visual weight decreases as the eye travels up the building. Alberti uses the order as a way to apply history in the present. Estonia: ideal synthesis of form and context of history and narrative with image. History painting (biblical and classical stories) is the greatest work of painting . Emphasizes expressiveness and reaction of figures to an event/ emotional power. Choreographed/rhetoric gestures/movement used to tell the narrative. Perspective painters: logic, measure and order, fra angelico, madonna and child.

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