FAH245H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: History Painting, Sigurd, Sea Monster
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Painting history, past and present (cid:1) move from the lowly landscape to the top of the hierarchy, in the 17th and 18th century featured the highest type of painting that a painter can make. (cid:1) History paintings tend to be very large (meant to be seen by large masses of people the more people that can see the work, the better for the artist putting it in a commercial setting) (cid:1) Rubens, arrival of marie de" medici at marseilles, 1622 5. Meant to tell us something about the moral character of the person depicted. Meant to teach us something. (from the past) Seen as something that can educate and give morals based on important figures of the past conducted their lives. Portraits. we have animal paintings, landscapes and still life painting. Story: about a man called james wolfe, a commander, wounded by the french.
