AHS 100 Lecture 17: Art History Unit 4- themes cont.
22 Nov 2016
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Christians could gather, and hiding places for fugitives. In christian europe in the 11th century, visual artists often illustrated themes and events from the bible: bishop be(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:449)a(cid:396)d, (cid:449)ho di(cid:396)e(cid:272)ted the (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g of the a(cid:271)(cid:271)e(cid:455) chu(cid:396)(cid:272)h of t. Hildesheim, germany, commissioned a set of doors that depict scenes from the book of. Genesis on the left side and scenes from the life of christ on the right. In the main section, there are representations both of the dead individual for whom the bis was made and also of other ancestors: the lower part called the canoe is believed to carry the deceased into the afterlife. Life and death: everything has a double meaning, dutch still life, shows a traveling scientist demonstrating the creation of a vacuum before an audience. If the scientist removes all the air from the glass container in which a bird in imprisoned, the bird will suffocate and die a dreadful death depicts the moment of truth.
