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The Classical World Gained, Lost,

• Then Reborn in the Renaissance

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• Before Figures, there was clay, and the need for
  utensils. But people in all cultures move toward
  design. But within the world of design, Wilhelm
  Worringer suggests that humanity swings back and
  forth through time, from loving abstract design,
  to loving representational design.

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• From simple utilitarian clay to abstract
  religious figures, modeling those figures on
  those early representations of the human form,
  among the Cycladic figures, to those of the
  Egyptians, whose methods the Ancient Greek
  artisans copied

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• We have seen the Greeks move from abstraction to
  representation, from protogeometric, geometric,
  archaic, classical, late classical, and
  hellenistic.
• The Romans just copied the Greeks.
• But Rome Falls 476 CE, and so does this world,
  expanded as it was in Northern Europe, the place
  to which we go now.

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• Medieval Periods lack proportion, perspective,
  representational detail, cxontrappostobut we
  begin to see a turn in the early 15th century
  back to and older Greco-Roman sense of these
  things. So too, themes other than Christian ones
  remerge, as do bodies.

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• Compare Michelangelos David with the order,
  proportion and balance, and the calmness of
  classical Greece and Rome. Now, consider, just as
  the Hellenstic period made the Classical period a
  little more frenetic, so too, post renaissance
  restoration art did the same thing. Check out
  Berninis David

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