In today’s lecture, we spent most of our time talking about the different ways the Madonna enthroned is depicted \/ the sacred conversation. It was really interesting to see how the skill of showing depth perception advanced throughout time and how artists used specific shading, eye gazing, and colors to illustrate a more naturalistic image. This progression also has a cultural component in Italian art as it was more or less a competition between artists to always do better than the previous artist. We also talked about how altarpieces are ritualistic in mass with the priest elevating the body of Christ and how this action would juxtapose with the altarpiece of the Virgin and baby Jesus. We also talked about the different ways artists tried to depict baby Jesus, from illustrating him larger than life (hierarchitic scale) and also showing him naked with human body parts to show incarnation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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