FAH102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Ecliptic, Filippo Brunelleschi
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Lecture 6: space is a theme of artworks. The city was considered a civic organization that is run by social elites who are economic competitors & competitors of social status: they competed through building tall, narrow towers. Instead of representing paradise as a garden or a heavenly place, they represent it in the form of a city. Went to rome for inspiration for philosophy: palazzo pubblico, the town hall has its own civic space which is an irregular figure. They were both independent city states vastly growing in their economies through trade and their populations were growing very vastly: women weaving linen, florence was the center of textile manufacturing. It made more sense to ha(cid:448)e a suppl(cid:455) of gold i(cid:374) e(cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:272)it(cid:455) (cid:449)here (cid:455)ou(cid:859)re doi(cid:374)g (cid:373)ajor (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess: the medici developed a modern banking system. This was their main palace in italy: riccardi is the name of the people who owned it after the medici.
