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This 10 page paper discusses the change of pictorial order in Medieval art to the modern era. Examples cited from each era. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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before paint hits canvas, or chisel to stone, that in the beginning all there is, is an idea and a blank plane. Art, then, is an idea in concrete form.
As such, then, one can tell a great deal about the development of pictorial order from a study of the various ideas represented in great works of art. Medieval
History When studying a great work of art, the history of the time is a great indicator as to the motivation of the painter and why he/she chose to place
certain colors, textures and subject matter in the way that they did. For example, in the Medieval period the Church was the ultimate authority. The Feudal system was fully in
control of the countryside and the class distinctions were concrete and absolute. Of course, this would not last. With the advent of the Black Death, the social order was
rearranged allowing for the evolution of a rudimentary middle class. This middle class citizen was able to afford luxury items that had formerly been only available to the nobles. Such
things as works of art were commonly bought, or commissioned by these middle class families. The Church, toward the latter part of the Medieval Era lost ground and as such,
ideas, which had been stifled for decades, sometimes, even centuries, were once again embraced. Throughout the Middle Ages, most sculpture is attached to the walls of the church. The cathedral
was a "sermon in stone" which could be "read" by an illiterate population. Before a worshipper has even entered the church, he would find images of saints and sinners, of
angelic beings and the punishment of the damned. The full sized bodies carved on the Chartres Cathedral, for instance, look as if they may walk off of the building. In
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