FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Guelphs And Ghibellines, Ten Commandments, Pietro Perugino
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Liberti representative of the gothic style working with bronze. Donatello in a much more avert way engages in a style that"s more verted. He is competing with antiquity showing his mastering in bronze. Donatello bronze is not a option with them so they use less expensive material such as marble and stone. They held a certain prestige in terms of the classical environment. Donatello is speaking through style using that style to tweak the iconography. The lower guilds are engaging in this idea of civic virtue. There are ways in way you revert a language and image in terms of the classical antiquity. In the way they present their patrons saint, st. mark for instance, you can see the way. He uses the visual language of classical sculpture to transform st. mark from a new testament figure to someone who is a roman scholar etc. speaking in public. He"s wearing sandals that look like what the old romans wore.
