MUSI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lucretius, Michelangelo, Autopsy
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Renaissance: rediscovery of art and science of ancient greece and rome to understand their own world, humanism, secularization (transfer of power from religion to state) Interest in accurate representation of nature artists depicted the natural world as it appeared using techniques of perspective and study of anatomy. Idealized figures, impersonal: middle ages: symbolism, flat, styled art, planes/episode, renaissance: personal, connection to the divine, realism, see the whole simultaneously. Mary and christ: medieval vs. renaissance: cimabue c. 1240-1302 (cenni di pepi, florentine, among first great italian painters, painting: ideal effect using magnificent colors emotional distance, raphael 1483-1520, painting: emotional bond between mother and child. 1452) in vinci: permitted to dissect bodies of executed criminals to study anatomy= humorous drawings of body, technique of perspective for realistic representation. 1475: artist who applied science to art, painted frescos on walls and ceiling of the sistine chapel, most famous is called creation of adam" david, peatar.
