1. Why is the page October, from Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (fig. 19-1) significant?
Because this is representing the human begins. For the first time, they are casting shadows upon the ground. In addition, the architecture is rendered with some measure of perspective precision. It means the picture is realistic with natural details and full of realistic landscape.
2. Who was the Medici of Florence and what role did they play in the development of the Italian Renaissance? What artists did this family influence?
Lorenzo de Medici, who assumed the control of his family in 1469, had founded the Platonic Academy of Philosophy. This family influenced Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo.
3. How does the Deposition (fig. 19-4) by Rogier van der Weyden represent Northern European Renaissance painting?
Rogier has given emphasis to the pathos and human feeling as an alternative that pervade his scene of Christ being lowered from the cross.
4. Describe the philosophical differences in the Japanese works Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks (fig. 19-14) from the northern school and Poet on a Mountaintop (fig. 19-15) from the southern school? …show more content…
This painting is highly decorative with technical skill of the painter, the rich use of colors, and traditional Chinese Painting. In addition, the painting takes a symbolic meaning that refers indirectly to the emperor. On the other hand, the southern style was unorthodox, radical and inventive. The Poet on a Mountain top by the artist Zhen Zhou radicalizes traditional Chinese landscape. For the southern artist, reality rested in the mind and thus self-expression was the ultimate
Because this is representing the human begins. For the first time, they are casting shadows upon the ground. In addition, the architecture is rendered with some measure of perspective precision. It means the picture is realistic with natural details and full of realistic landscape.
2. Who was the Medici of Florence and what role did they play in the development of the Italian Renaissance? What artists did this family influence?
Lorenzo de Medici, who assumed the control of his family in 1469, had founded the Platonic Academy of Philosophy. This family influenced Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo.
3. How does the Deposition (fig. 19-4) by Rogier van der Weyden represent Northern European Renaissance painting?
Rogier has given emphasis to the pathos and human feeling as an alternative that pervade his scene of Christ being lowered from the cross.
4. Describe the philosophical differences in the Japanese works Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks (fig. 19-14) from the northern school and Poet on a Mountaintop (fig. 19-15) from the southern school? …show more content…
This painting is highly decorative with technical skill of the painter, the rich use of colors, and traditional Chinese Painting. In addition, the painting takes a symbolic meaning that refers indirectly to the emperor. On the other hand, the southern style was unorthodox, radical and inventive. The Poet on a Mountain top by the artist Zhen Zhou radicalizes traditional Chinese landscape. For the southern artist, reality rested in the mind and thus self-expression was the ultimate