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lectures, Italian renaissance painting, week 6, Vitruvis, Lecture notes…
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Vitruvis
lecture
Rome pantheon -- for all the gods
- the most Roman building to sruvive antiquitiy
- built by an Emperor Hadrian and dedicated c. AD 126
- Originally the temple of all the gods
grand dome
- coffered dome
- phanteon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome
- oculus
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- Town planning / civil engineering
- building materials
- Temples and orders of architecture
- contamination Book III
- civil buildings
- Domestic buildings
"Triad" of characteristics associated with architecture:
- utillitas, firmitas and venustas
Principles of good architecture
- order = arrangement of parts
eurythymy
- symmetry
- propriety
- economy
The classical or Vitruvian orders:
- Doric = fluted or smooth columns with no base & round capitals (the top part) This is the earliest and plainest order. Associated with masculinity. There is a very plain version valled; The Tuscan order
2.Ionic is usually lfuted, slender columns, a separate rounded base, and capitals with volutes the curly tops associated with feminity
- Corinthian. Fluted columhns, with elaborate capitals, including volutes and acantgys leaf decoration. This is the order developed last and the fanciest classical order
Lecture notes week 3
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Emergence of a new style: characteristictics:
- strong delineation of form
- Inticate technique
- heigtened realism
- intense realism
- expressivity
- complex icongraphy
- three dimensionality and perspective
- skill in rendering colour
- attention paid to natural phenomena like light, shadow and reflection
New Patrons
- New public (and patrons) for painted art arise in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century
- Many of these were wealthy townspeople
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