ARTHIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allsaints, Cimabue
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Lecture 2, patronage faith and secular life in 14th century european art. Dates are integral to your understanding of how objects and events relate to one another in history. For art history, we need to know when works were made in order to understand how their creation or production relates to a larger cultural, social and historical context. As we learn more, knowing dates and chronology1 will allow us to make cross-cultural comparisons and to see how techniques and the roles of art around the world relate to one another. This lecture: examining how works of art functioned as devotional objects and how artworks supported people"s faith in europe in the 14th century. When a work of art helps one be devote, it supports one"s religious practice. This is a portable work of art. It was made in a way that it could be moved around as.