ARTH 1441 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mehmed The Conqueror, Nicolas Poussin, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Byzantine style: titian developed a new technique of painting the paint appears to have texture to it, it appears to be 3d (the laying down of the paint onto a panel). Instead of using a white background, he used a red background, then build the composition on top of the red color. viii. ix. They are looking for an article of clothing good enough for venus: the warmth of the light is typical of titian, the fleshiness of the body is more accurate than the masculine appearance from florence artists. It a courtly painting she looks like a woman of the court in a relationship with a the duke (a secular subject) vi: a confrontational and sexualized image, commissioned as wedding gift. Christ child: mirrors the figure of christ of the pieta, the child looks more pale than the rosy complexion of the madonna, parmigianino.
