ART 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lithography, Ancient Greek Architecture
30 Sep 2016
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Affair was neither an important historical event nor a propaganda opportunity. On the contrary, it was an isolated episode involving the commonest of people farmers, soldiers, and sailors. The rococo art of ancient palmyra came as a revelation, through engravings in. Even greece was all-but-unvisited, a rough backwater of the. Ottoman empire, dangerous to explore, so neoclassicists" appreciation of greek architecture was mediated through drawings and engravings, which subtly smoothed and regularized, corrected and restored the monuments of greece, not always consciously. Treatment was original as well. steered a careful course between realism and idealism. However much as we are tempted to see them as allegories of life, of death, or suffering we are prevented from doing so by the intrusion of realistic details. It appears that gericault wants the viewer to meditate on the general and essential human concerns without forgetting the specific event that provokes these thoughts.
