ART HIS 22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tastemade, Anthropomorphism, Corinthian Order
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Illusionism: something that resembles the world outside, mimesis is connected to this, something about resemblance. Rembrandt: use of scale, artist looks so smol. Also suggests that there is a thought process // the intellectual efforts. Maybe the subject of the painting is the artist himself. Shows off his power, his keys, his precense in the room. She was related to him in some way. She was a part of the court in the capital (isthavan?) Her name is theresa, named after theresa of abullah (vision of being penetrated by an arrow) She had a piece of flesh from the saint"s body, and she wore it around her neck. She was also an ambassador for the shaw. Headdress is from the east, levant area (east of europe) Van dyk painted a lot of long hands and long face and pale face.
