Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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


BUT USES ANTIQUITY IN ANOTHER WAY

Take these 11th-and 16th-century views of the Nativity:  




The medieval shepherds wear work cloths and seem to be ordinary men. Their descendant wears the drapery of antiquity and has the body of a god.

 The sacrality of gold yields to a Roman arc.

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