The video that I choose was Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany because this title seemed to stand out the most. The fact that it said The Black Death really made me think that this would be very interesting to watch with some crazy things.
The Plaque spared no one when it hit Tuscany and lasted 7 months. Painting changed in significant ways after the Plague. Figures emerge flatter than in the previous century. Post-Plague art is less realistic than the earlier masters such as Giotto. When watching More Human than Human they said that the world's most popular images of the human body share one common feature and that is that none of the images actually resembles a real human being. The Greek and Egyptian artist are similar as well as different, Greek artists studied every aspect of the human form, striving to reproduce the form perfectly.
The videos related in the sense that they went into detail about what each culture, religion liked about the material that they use, or the ,mediums. They also went into detail about the times before and the things that each city state and culture went though. The readings you might not have been able to see these images, which is where the videos helped. The films although they seem dry, are very informal and tell a lot about why we do the things that we do, or what has happened to make people change.
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