Usage of the terms 'image', 'art' and 'artists' and the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Title: Usage of the terms 'image', 'art' and 'artists' and the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1345 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Usage of the terms 'image', 'art' and 'artists' and the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1345 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
It is important to look firstly at the meaning of the three words image, art and artists; what they mean today and what they meant to the people of Medieval and Early Modern periods. The Collins dictionary defines image as 1. a mental picture of someone or something produced by the imagination or memory. 2. the appearance or impression given to the public by a person or organization. 3. a simile or metaphor. 4. the representation of a person …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…gain the title of artist until people wanted their pictures purely for aesthetic purposes.
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*Collins dictionary. Harper Collins. 1995.
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*Magurn, Ruth, translated and edited by. The letters of Peter Paul Rubens. Harvard UP 1955.
*Schapiro, Meyer, On the Aesthetic Attitude in Romanesque Art 1947.
*Vassari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists. A selection translated by George Bull. Penguin books, 1987.
