ARTH 120 Lecture 8: Week 8
25 Mar 2016
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Absolutely frontal jesus in majesty an unnatural (immutable, eternal) stance in classical art, no suffering/mercy. Scale to weigh souls, angels and leering devils. The faithful going to heaven are straight and ordered. Eve is lying down, like a snake, in a horizontal frame; contrast to a real presence, deception over the stiffness of another figure idiocy. She will tempt adam; her body, woman destroys man. Monks: learned men who decide to seclude (vows, chastity, poverty, obedience) themselves in monasteries, living apart from the world . Cloister, priory of saint-pierre, moissac, 110 ce: cluniac order (not classical) Each capital is different, intricately carved, humans, angels, vegetables, seeming religious stories, strangely playful imagery or sinful scenes. Nothing extremely moral > much defused ornament. Bernard of clairvaux a shapely misshapenness : safe place for monks to go about activities w/o worldly distractions, columns are varying single/twin, arches are slightly pointed. Initial l and st matthew, the codex cobertinus 1100 ce cluniac manuscript.
