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Periods: Critical Text quotes (Avant Garde (Charles Baudelaire (heroism of…
Periods: Critical Text quotes
Renaissance
Kenneth Clark: Civilization
Guliliano della Rovere was destined to give the High Renaissance its heroic direction
The human body is a God-like perfection
The discovery of the individual was made in 15th century Florence
Florentines were proudly individual characters
Most ideas in philosophical paintings of the Renaissance come from poets and theologians
Botticelli Venus dissolves into his Virgin Mary
Her body reflects a perfect understanding of human anatomy (Penitent Magdalean)
Giorgio Vasari
:
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters Sculptors and Architects
The Bacchus proved Michelangelo's superiority to all of his counterparts
Such gifts like Raphael are not men, they are more mortal Gods
It is a miracle that a rock can take on such perfection (on Pieta)
Vast,defiant and nude (on David)
The portrait caused all who saw it to tremble
Michelangelo was a man who assimilated Antique art in all its forms
Brunelleschi was sent by heaven to invest new architectural forms
Avant Garde
John Ruskin: Modern Painters and 7 Lamps of Architecture
Go to nature in all singleness of heart
A giant cucumber frame (on the Crystal Palace)
Giant greenhouse (on the Crystal Palace)
Charles Baudelaire
heroism of modern life
The crowd is his element (on Monet)
Parisian life is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects
We only have to open our eyes to recognize our own heroism
Emile Zola
pink and white marzipan
You can see the modern aspects of society, that is where painting is today
Impressionist painters presume to render the truth of nature
Paul Gauguin
Art is an abstraction
Alfred Gilbert
In Florence the scales fell from my eyes
Rodin
Michelangelo to this day remains my master