HISTART 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marcantonio Raimondi, Print Culture, I Modi
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Lecture 7: the visual representation of eroticized bodies. Love conquers all; let us all yield to love! . All love is okay - outstretched arms connote a welcoming view. Eros - the greek god of desire (often male-male) The cheeky boy over the first overruling influence over politics & economics (the objects he is standing in front of) Left - woman, right - wealthy roman banker (owners) Pornography - (pornographia) - writing and imagery about prostitues (1857) German term from the roman word, pornagraphia. Sight - quickly aid us in certain sense of lies. The paintings were very expensive to buy. Oldest known sculpture of two people having sex. Sculpturing tow people having sex requires an enormous amount of creativity. 9000 bce - a new culture was born, as people had more free time and not all of their time was allocated to surviving (hunting/gathering)
