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| IDEA # 7: NARRATIVE - On Trajan’s Column in Rome
significant moments in the story of Trajan’s Dacian campaign are grouped to
align vertically, so that they make sense from several standpoints when viewed
from the ground. Like a mime show, Masaccio’s The Tribute Money fresco conveys
the drama of emotionally charged confrontation and resolute action even to
modern viewers unfamiliar with the biblical story. |
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IDEA # 32:
TROMPE-L'OEIL - Renaissance artists put the newly perfected technique of linear
perspective to light-hearted as well as serious uses. The trompe-l’oeil ceiling
opening Andrea Mantegna painted for his patron Ludovico Gonzaga is a virtuoso
demonstration of perspective.
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IDEA # 34:
ALLEGORY - In devising his great allegory Primavera (Spring, c.1478), Sandro
Botticelli followed Alberti’s advice to painters, to take their themes from
literary sources. In the center Venus and Cupid represent love, while Flora
scatters flowers.
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IDEA # 54:
THE ARTIST - A detail from Courbet’s The Studio of the Painter (1855) shows the
artist painting a landscape, observed by a nude female model and, to the right,
people he called 'shareholders'—friends and supporters from the art world.
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| IDEA # 59: CAPTURING THE INSTANT - John Constable’s
studies of clouds over Hampstead Heath, London, in 1821-1822 are so accurate
that they correlate with meteorological records. Art’s subject here is not the
permanence of landscape but 'the ungraspable, the fleeting.' |
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IDEA # 65:
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT - In George de la Tour’s Saint Joseph Carpenter (c.1640), the
young Jesus holds a candle while his father drills a wooden beam, foreshadowing
the Crucifixion. Candlelight intensifies the spiritual drama of this apparently
everyday scene.
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| IDEA # 82: SHOCK - Defending Manet’s Déjeuner sur
l’herbe (1863) from accusations of 'obscene intent,' the novelist Emile Zola
took the scandalized public to task for being preoccupied with subject matter
and ignoring the painting’s qualities as art. |
