ART-HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: French Literature, Daguerreotype, Gentle Men
9 Feb 2017
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Tragedy by english poet lord byron set in ancient nineveh. Imaginary the fall of the assyrian monarchy and its supposed last king. Delacroix death of sardanapalus luxurious, lethargic, cruel imagined downfall of a king real stone reliefs from archaeologist triggered artists to imagine what it was like in mesopotamia. Naked women dead at foot of bed. Detail so you can start imagining carnage. Give the idea that women walk around naked. Enemy surrounding city so he decides to kill all. Kings horse being stabbed red tassels but no blood. Engage imagination by making you imagine the blood. Servant stabbing himself to follow kings orders. Since late renaissance artists sought a mechanical method for drawing from nature camera obscura which reflects upside down image of world outside. Dark chamber with small hole light rays pass through an image of world projected upside down.
