ARTH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Accademia Degli Incamminati, Contarelli Chapel, Tenebrism
28 Sep 2016
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Major impact in education, founded institutions of learning. Meeting of bishops to reform the catholic church. Last meetings, talked about the legitimacy of using images. An art that is done for virtuosity, for style. Cicero; gabriele paleotti (1582): delectare, docere, movere art as rhetoric. Delectare - to delight your audience, tell a joke. Movere - to move emotionally, in the context of the church convert to a better catholic". Late maniera: giorgio vasari, deposition from the cross, ca. Hard to tell which figures are more important. Virgin mary fainted away laying on the ground, surrounded by other 2 mary"s and angels. Sebastiano del piombo: christ carrying the cross, 1535-40, oil on slate. Powerful foreshortening to create the sense that christ is moving towards you. Handing you the cross, engages the viewer - more emphasis on the cross than jesus. Derives from a meditation method, goes back to late middle ages. Compare: jacopo bassano, christ carrying the cross, 1544-45.
