Wednesday, August 22, 2018

II.5.4. THE CHURCH OMITS PAGAN DECOR...


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. 

By Pellegrino Tibaldi, 1548 / zoom

By Perin del Vaga, 1534 / zoom
  
The gold of sacrality yields to a Roman arc. 
 
By Luigi Benfatto, end 16th century / zoom 

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