Jiang contrasts medieval art with Renaissance art by saying the latter makes space, time, depth, and perspective newly central.
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Renaissance art
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Renaissance art moves from 'blinding and awesome' to 'compelling and curious' by using depth, spatial motion, and dramatic tension to make the viewer participate.
Jiang names Dante's central intervention as a reimagining of the human relationship with God, which explains the confident self-exploration of Renaissance art.
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"...european art okay and then we're going to contrast it with renaissance art and see if we can spot the difference it's actually pretty..."
"You're here to submit. Alright? So as you can see, this is a church. You can see how the light comes in. And it..."
"It's much too thin, right? So what your eye believes is this table is expanding outwards. And so you are part of this picture...."
"...We can now see the radical differences between Christian art and Renaissance art. So now the question then is, how did Dante spark the..."
"imagination yes so let's do mathematics of renaissance art let's see what what happens if we do that mathematics of renaissance art yeah so..."
"What is, okay, I don't know enough about Renaissance art to comment, okay? But let's imagine what's happening. Okay. So, last, yesterday, we discussed..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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