ART HIS 22 Lecture 5: Lecture Five Continued: Versailles
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A taste for art and aesthetic was constructed by the king and his artists. Louis is the fixed center, no matter how many damn gardens they add. Crossing of the rhine painting: not on midterm but still a good time. Two questions, 25 minutes each for either of them. Final exam: two comparisons and one or two essays. Employs naturalism though he has painting of mary and gabriel and a weird flying jesus. Slides from midterm will be posted from the midterm. Naturalistic, but the virgin is large as hell in the painting. Depicted as the queen of heaven, she has jewels and a crown. Angel comes to tell the virgin that she will have the word. Body of the virgin is like a church. Tracer above the arches there are scenes from the virgin story. Angel comes to tell the virgin that she will have the word of god.