Arth 112 1st Edition Lecture 9 Current Lecture Leonardo Da Vinci 1490 Vitruvian Man Study of the Human Body o Just as Alberti systematized perspective this drawing systemized human proportions Human figure 7 Heads high Renaissance ideas Man is the measure of all things Symmetry balance ideal figures symbolic paradigmatic images Annunciation 1472 o Portrays the moment that the angel comes and tells Mary that she will have a holy birth Used systems of sheets to create ideal diffused natural light Atmospheric perspective background o Enclosed garden symbol of Mary s viginity o Lilies symbol of purity The Last Supper 1495 1498 o Depicts the moment in which Jesus announces that one of his disciples will betray him Everyone is reacting These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Judas is cast in shadow holding the money he sold Jesus out for under his robes o Painted with oil on fresco chemically did not work Much of the painting itself has been lost Blue Purity Red Sacrifice o Narratively dramatic o Systematically geometric Madonna on the Rocks 1483 o Pyramid structure Mary at the top with Jesus John and an Angel on the bottom o Fumato Smokey atmosphere Creates mystical mysterious effect Impenetrable darkness created by the caverns in the background Subliminal emotional effects Madonna and Child with St Anne 1508 13 o Interesting psychological painting o Freud believed that this painting referenced Da Vinci s own life His real mother had left when he was young and lived far away He grew up with another woman in the house another mother
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