ARTHI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peter Paul Rubens, Isabella Brant, Watercolor Painting
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Not afraid to draw himself as fleshy, sign of wealth. Born in antwerp, became a well-known artist and aristocrat, traveled to rome in. Drawing of laocoon, added extra muscles to add to the expressive. Oil sketch of titian"s bacchanal of the andrians. Rape of the daughter of leucippus - rubens. Real love of painting materials and details, not idealized like the renaissance. Became its own genre in the early modern era, during the 16th century. Images of nature don"t show deities but nature as created by god. Leonardo"s drawings of a storm and of a flower. Looks like a landscape painting but historical event in foreground. Distinct foreground, middle ground, and background with even lighting. Architectural correctness with an obelisk, temple, and ruins of an old temple. Ruins represent the end of the pagan era and the beginning of the christian era. People would travel to rome and buy a painting as a souvenir.
