Looking up in judgement: how to see the early modern statue through the late medieval crucifix in Italy

"In the 1320s, the sculptor Paolo di Giovanni was commissioned to furnish his home town of Florence with statues of the Virgin and saints for two of the city’s new gates, the Porta Romana and the Porta San Gallo. Such gates were important public assertions of civic identity for the self-governi...

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1. Verfasser: Dent, Peter 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"In the 1320s, the sculptor Paolo di Giovanni was commissioned to furnish his home town of Florence with statues of the Virgin and saints for two of the city’s new gates, the Porta Romana and the Porta San Gallo. Such gates were important public assertions of civic identity for the self-governing communes of central Italy in the late medieval period. Where the function of the medieval crucifix was to lead the viewer towards Christ, Benvenuto Cellini's work leads us just as surely back to his own hand. For Giacomo, this experience of looking up at Christ’s face and at the side wound is fundamentally tied to the question of judgement. This chapter focuses on the issues of public sculpture, viewer location and judgements about truth, as they play out in the transition from the middle ages to the early modern period. Medieval sculptors certainly had to anticipate viewers situated well below the planned location of their work."
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-0-367-41638-6

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