What points or observations does Sedlmayr make that we also made in class on Tuesday? What things in the picture did Sedlmayr convince you to see that you hadn't seen previously? Do you agree with Sedlmayr's analysis?
I would also like you to explain what Sedlmayr means by "Macchia" -- what is Macchia and how do we experience it?
After answering these questions, you should find at least 10 sentences that are strictly formal descriptions of a particular painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Do not include any sentence where Sedlmayr interprets what he sees. Similarly, do not include sentences where Sedlmayr is speaking broadly about Bruegel's paintings and images in general. If a sentence is divided up by a ";" or ":" or a connecting word like "similarly", "instead", etc., and there seem to be two separate observations within the compound sentence, you may count these as 2 sentences.
Number your entries 1.-10. Type the sentence. Give the page number where you found the sentence.
You submission should look something like this (without reusing my examples):
1. The round cakes covering the roof at the upper left of Netherlandish Proverbs do not follow the sharp spatial shift of the roof's surface. (327)
2. Instead [the round cakes] remain, regardless of the bend in their support, unforeshortened and on the same unified plane as the disintegrating figures. (327)
Come prepared to talk about the article, because it is an important article (and one of my very favorite art-historical readings of all time)
Leave your response in the "Comments" section, (accompanied by enough of your name to identify yourself to me) before 12:30pm next Thursday, 1 October 2009.
