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Understanding Western Art

Summary

Here, survey the major shifts in artistic techniques, freedoms, and humanist thinking that came with the Renaissance. Visit the glorious Scrovegni Chapel, designed by Giotto, whose innovative frescoes changed hundreds of years of artistic tradition. Explore the revolutionary development of oil painting, and its breathtaking use by Rogier Van der Weyden, in his Descent from the Cross.

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