CRITICAL QUOTES Flashcards
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Pope Julius II
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‘So true and so lifelike, that the portrait caused those who saw it to tremble as if it had bee the living man himself’
Vasari
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Giorgionne’s sleeping venus
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the reclining female nude became a distinctive feature of Venetian painting” (Bull).
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Bacchus - Vasari
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Vasari noted the combination of “the slenderness of a young man” and “the roundness of a woman.”
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bacchus - moving away from classical ideals
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Johannes Wilde described it as “not the image of a god,”
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bacchus- neoplatonism
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links drunkeness to ‘divine masness’ (charles carman)
