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Generally, the era of Late Antiquity represented a transition from classical modes of artistic style to a more medieval artistic style. However, the basic philosophy of art, as it were, stayed static. By the year 300 c.e., most Christians had accepted sculptures (which they had originally been suspicious of, because of their use in Pagan worship. With this, of course, came the greek idealistic realism which characterized the Hellenic Aesthetic. However, if one examines sarcaphogi from this time, one notices an explicit “dogmatization” of artwork therein. | Generally, the era of Late Antiquity represented a transition from classical modes of artistic style to a more medieval artistic style. However, the basic philosophy of art, as it were, stayed static. By the year 300 c.e., most Christians had accepted sculptures (which they had originally been suspicious of, because of their use in Pagan worship. With this, of course, came the greek idealistic realism which characterized the Hellenic Aesthetic. However, if one examines sarcaphogi from this time, one notices an explicit “dogmatization” of artwork therein. | ||
=====ARTHIST 1B: History of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzwW-v5yBsE by Stanford YouTube] | |||
What is the past? What is the present? Alexander Nemerov, the Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, delivers the first lecture in the undergraduate course "Introduction to the Visual Arts: History of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present." | |||
