Throughout paintings in the B/R era, a unique set of
circumstances afforded painters the chance to both paint in a style of realism
and to paint with quickly changing social mores. As the B/R era encompasses the
better part of two centuries there were quite a few to tackle, and very few
techniques do better at invoking empathy with the painted scene than directly
involving the viewer in an implied role in it, with all the consequences
therein.
Caravaggio, The Entombment of Christ
Here we have a spiritual example, where you, the person,
stand to lift the stiffened Body of the now dead Christ and hoist Him and carry
Him into the tomb. It would take a seriously spiritually disenfranchised person
to miss the mark on that one. Though we discussed this in class I felt it was
particularly powerful.
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Here we sit at an early anatomy lesson, quite eloquently
laid out for us by Ellis in her final presentation. Notable here are those that
look not at the lesson or the teacher but at us, with eyes that are not
embarrassed but anticipatory.
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