MUSIC 308A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Counter-Reformation, Indulgence, Florence Cathedral
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The ren ai ss ance: renaissance: rebirth, experience world through senses, raphael school of athens (1509-11): fresco, vatican (catholic church hq), discussion, political forums, senate, features plato, aristotle, philosophical conversation drives idea of humanism, driving force of the. Renaissance: associate renaissance with italy; catholicism, wide-spread merchantry and trade. Filippo brunelleschi, santa maria del fiore (1436): not gothic architecture, situated more in context with rest of the city, references to gothic architecture and antiquity. Leon battista alberti santa maria novella (1470): more down to scale, references to antiquity with pillars, things on human scale; developed theory based on idea that flat surface, illusion of death vanishing point perspective (perspective study, 1435) Perugino christ presenting the keys to st, peter (1482): sense of space, depth, illusion of people being smaller, just far away: duccio, madonna and child (1300) Giotto the death of the virgin (1310): imagination to make transitions.
