The Story of Art: 0000

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painting was indeed on the way to becoming a form of writing with pictures .. this freedom from the need to imitate the natural world was to enable them to convey the idea of the supernatural” 010 The Church Triumphant: the 13th century

the more we generalize about art the more likely we are to go wrong” Thank you for reading this post! it is curious how rarely artists before the middle of the 18th century strayed from the narrow limits of illustration [of biblical stories and classical myths] .. all this changed very rapidly during the period of the French Revolution. Suddenly artists felt free to choose as their subjects anything from a Shakespearean scene to a topical event”

Albrecht Dürer “followed the customof all young medieval craftsmen and travelled about as a journeyman to broaden his views and to look for a place in which to settle.

Invention of printing in Germany by Gutenberg in mid 15th century .. “just as the invention fo printing hastened the exchange of ideas .. so the printing of images ensured the triumph of the art of the Italian Renaissance in the rest of Europe” 015 Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, early 16th century Still life .. “became a wonderful field of experiments for painters’ special problems . [like] the way light is reflected and broken by coloured glass” the International style is perhaps the last international style Europe has seen – at least until the 20th century. In the 15th century art broke up into a number of different ‘schools'” One reason for this bias is that less is lost in the illustration of a painting than in that of a round sculpture, let alone a monumental building. a master who could plan such vast pictures .. it would be the task of his pupils or assistants to transfer these ideas on to the large canvas “a b Hope, Charles. "Obituary: Sir Ernst Gombrich: [FOREIGN Edition]." The Independent, Nov 6, 2001, pp. 6 . ProQuest. in the age of Reason, people began to become self-sonscious about style and styles .. among the most sophisticated connoisseurs there were some who wanted to be different from the others” The amount of building done in the 19th century was probably greater than in all former periods taken together” Further information: Shang dynasty and Zhou dynasty Warriors of the Terracotta Army; c. 214BC; terracotta; height (average soldier): c. 1.8 m; Lintong District ( Xi'an, Shaanxi, China) [26]