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Time period for the Renaissance - 1300-1600
Chartes Cathedral, France 1150 - -Doorway is called the 'Royal Portal' because it is lined with royal
statues of biblical kings and queens on door jambs.
-Time frame when statues were integrated into the architectural structure.
-Elongated slender creatures to idealize them (weightless, not interested in muscle or bone but
concerned with pattern, detail and style)
-Statues are remote and unearthly with generic faces in a repetitive pattern
St. Mark, Florence by Donatello 1411-1413 - -Was made for linen drapers' guild in Orsanmichele,
Florence
-His stance is contrapposte (in a position ready to move)
-Weight shift in his pose, the statue is now free from the architecture
-Individualized structure, his eyes are carved with depth and shadow, wrinkles in face, large fingers and
veins
-Shift from previous colander shape to a revealing body shape and form
Influence of guilds - -The most powerful guild in Florence was the banking guild who had houses and
banks all across Europe
-Wool and textile guild was also very powerful
-Guilds controlled in and around a city
-Guilds were all in competition for power and influence
Doubting of Thomas, 1483 by Verrocchio - -Was created for the merchants court in Orsanmichele,
Florence
-Lifesize, bronze
, -A statue that continued to push realistic style along
-Unconstrained from architecture and even reaches outside the arches frame
-St. Thomas is about to stick his finger in Christ's wound to prove how real it is that it makes you want to
touch it
-Thomas is outside of the frame because Christ gets focal point of the frame since men are still about
the same size
-Correct hierarchy is preserved: Christ is higher
-By using two figures you are able to see them in action, which reveals character and tells a story of
violence and physicality
David, 1435-1440 by Donatello - -Was created for Medici's courtyard in Florence
-It is the first free standing male nude
-The statue is of a young innocent boy so that the focus is on David's frail body- emphasizing youth and
how he needed God's assistance in order to slay Goliath
-Statue is not a moment of action but a reflection
-Standing on Goliath's head
-Nude, bible says David fought without armor so the nudity reflects back to classical Roman Greek
statues- by taking clothes away it shows his heroic body and becomes a convention for a way to display
the great heroes
-Statues form is very similar to a marble nude statue by Apollo Belvedere from 330 B.C. which was a
Roman copy of a Greek statue
Placement of the statue of David - -Medici's courtyard (which was designed by Bartolomeo 1444)
-The Medici's wanted a statue of David that showed they were the underdogs in Florence (were
planning on taking over the city)
-Medici's begin creating a collection of antiquities- art from the past- which demonstrates their wisdom
and expertise of the classical world)
Byzantine Icon of Virgin and Child, 12th Century - -Tempera on wood panel
-Theme is that the icon will heal you, reward you, lead you to salvation, and protect you
-People wanted to get close to icons, almost to the point of idol worshipping
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