FAH230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Great Spirit, Laurentian Library, Filippo Brunelleschi
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Raphael and michelangelo at work: art and architecture. Subject: virgin mourning and holding dead christ. Asked to carve the most beautiful work in rome. Shows his mastery of marble, through the folds of the drapes. Signature is cut across the upper torso of virgin in latin. States that he"s very proud of this work. States that block of marble already contains the image but only a hand of an artist can free it". 1. 58m: different use in material and approach to the art of sculpture. Meant to be for cathedral of florence, once it was carved it was placed in the public square in front of city hall meant to give a message (beauty and athletic strength) to all the citizens. The sistine chapel"s - where pope had mass, place where they chose the new pope, had very important functions. Ceiling is transformed through painted/architectural framework which is divided up by pilasters, each pilaster accommodates a prophet.
