BUT USES ANTIQUITY IN ANOTHER WAY
Compare these paintings of the 11th-and 16th-centuries:
- Medieval shepherds wear laborers' clothes and seem to be ordinary men.
Manuscript, 14th-15th centuries, zoom
Book of hours of Etienne Chevalier, toward 1460 / zoom
By Robert Campan, toward 1420 / zoom
- Their descendants have the bodies of gods and may wear antique draperies.
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By Pellegrino Tibaldi, 1548 / zoom
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By Perin del Vaga, 1534 / zoom
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The gold of sacrality yields to a Roman arc.
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By Luigi Benfatto, end 16th century / zoom
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