ARTH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sistine Chapel, Entablature, Ludovica Albertoni
7 Apr 2016
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Break down the boundaries, breaking the paragome, related to the idea that breaking literally the frame of different medium and transforming from one media to other. Original come from the temple of solomon in. Jerusalem, resurgence of the catholic church, legitimizing the catholic church. The window at the very end of the apse surrounded by guilded sunrays. Forty hour"s devotion, take place in the church began in rome. Baldacchino, a frame for the altar over which santa peter has been buried. Bernini: cornaro chapel, sta maria della vittoria, rome with the ecstasy of saint. First time in history that different medium are successfully mixed. Takes a very conservative, classical chapel model and makes it move. Bring the boundaries between different material and make it seems to be miraculous. Transform the traditional italian chapel into something three-dimensional by using a marble sculpture in a shade box.
