HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Christ Child, Giorgio Vasari, Nicodemus
15 Sep 2016
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Cathedral (santa maria assunta) (really the church of mary: sprinkle a little bit of the white marble with color, brickstone, not a lot of marble quarry, built really tall, mosaic. A little bit too angulated: juxtaposition of gold ground. Mother of god (immaculate conception: pregnancy without intercourse with an earthly man, scandal from other religions when they try to approach. Most often shown in the contexts of: the beginning of the earthly life of jesus. The virgin with the child: the passion and ending of the earthly life of jesus. Piet = mary holding the dead body of christ: in eternal states: in heaven as queen, with saints. Jesus takes a position of rulership in heaven after rising, then he invites mary into heaven. See belting reading, likeness and presence / bild und kult. Byzantium has such a problem with depicting things life-like.
