ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Annibale Carracci, Travertine, Polymath
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Cfcflecture questions: how did southern baroque architecture and urban design express the ambitions of the 17th- century papacy, how do southern baroque religious paintings express the values of the catholic. Idea of a unified whole that bernini"s biographers came up with. Breaking down of media, using medias for different things. Obelisk: square or rectangular shaft, usually monolithic, with tapering sides and a pyramidal apex. Piazza: an open space, usually oblong, surrounded by buildings. In the piazza navona ( new square ) in rome. Originally a roman circus to perform chariot races, kept its shape over time. Fountain is dead in the center of the square. Large basin to collect water, large rock in the middle, figures, and egyptian obelisk with bronze detailing. Ganges river in india (asia), rio de la plata (americas), nile river (africa), Naturalised body turned towards us (different from the symmetry of the. Renaissance, the figure is twisted and in motion).
