ARTH 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Loggia Dei Lanzi, De Pictura, Simone Martini
6 Oct 2016
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Confirmation of the franciscan order by pope innocent iii, st. francis master, late 13thc. Franciscan order = monks: supposed to take vow of poverty. See great deal of difference between order and the church. Church permitted to have wealth and eliteness because it was seen as so pure. Mary is wearing blue robes; robes suggested to be expensive: depicting her as queen of the earth. Humanization of the figure: natural reaction of holding place in book with thumb. Moment of reading interrupted by the angel gabriel. Secularism is in canopy above their heads used for medieval: like a red carpet, honouring secular individual, bears coat of arms of sienna. Depicts her as a visitor of city (transformation into ruler of city) In the name of god and profit: marco datini, 14thc, cloth merchant. Integrating the secular and the sacred in renaissance art. Birth of christ is at the bottom register aligning it with this world.
