ARTHIST 2I03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 133 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Major cultural themes (c. 1400-1580: rediscovery of ancient greco-roman culture (writers & artists: plato, aristotle & pliny; Apelles, parrhasios & praxiteles: birth of humanism (7 liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy & music, economic expansion and state building (italy, spain, france, england, divisions in the catholic church (papal schism avignon vs. rome; protestant. Reformation; european religious wars: artistic innovation: imitation of the ancients, new subject matter, religious paintings, monumental sculpture, new st. peter"s, public and private spaces (city squares, markets & churches vs. private residence, personal libraries and art galleries) Early renaissance florence sculpture 1401-1406: 1401 baptistery doors competition reliefs, contrapposto in sculpture, relief sculpture and narrative (moving figures & moving stories, contraposto in sculpture. Commensurate perspectives: hyper religious quality, external exactness (michelangelo) Microscopic, telescopic eye to detail, all of the details: ghent altarpiece, adoration of the lamb.
