ART 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stained Glass, Onyx, Gislebertus
27 Jul 2018
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* there are a lot of roman ruins in spain and france, just keep this in mind. Left: sinners, demons, scary winged creatures, archangel michael with the devil weighing people"s souls, angels acting as helpers/they speak for the souls, hybrid devil figures shoving souls into this furnace to be damned eternally. Right: saved souls, cute little rooms in a big house, an angel lifts a person up to his new room, people are singing, everyone looks alright. Lintel: people and creatures in limbo waiting to be judged -- they"re nervous and fidgety. Gislebertus hoc fecit -- we think he may be the artist of this (hoc fecit = made this in latin) This would be a rare, rare example of a medieval artist signing his work. Most people didn"t sign their work because a lot of artists worked in groups of craftsmen for the churches.
