ART HIS 22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Portinari Altarpiece, Helena Fourment, Phocion
2 Apr 2016
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1577-1640 a specialist in dynamic baroque a painter, a diplomat, a courtier, a humanist scholar. 1 of the greatest artists in the history of western art regarded = many travel and work throughout europe cosmopolitan person. 100 assistants in italy 1600-08, study titian"s work work for duke of engello. 15x19 ft painted from the cathedral of antrwrk establish his reputation as a painter. Flemish dynamic baroque tryptich on wood a useful material. ***the type of genre used early in n renaissance. 2 panels are integrated mary on left panel good and bad thieves, roman soldiers on the right. Christ crucifixion in the center common background that unites them (add dynamics) different from n renaissance altarpiece (3 panels depict 3 different scenes) central panel: physical (typical of baroque commonality) 3 older male figures who are watching the scene with perverted satisfaction a dog in the lower left corner suggest the torture is animalistic. Deal with rubens" use of diagonals (venetian influence)
