ART 001B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beauvais Cathedral, Hemicycle, North Portal, Saskatchewan
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Competition between towns to make bigger and better sculptures. Gothic structures in the east = stockier. Post and lintel systems could not sustain enough people. Damage and repair over time made it asymmetrical. Nakedness has a negative connotation in medieval gothic. Most people were illiterate at the time so the images told them the stories of the bible. The interpretation of the figures = super obvious. Different from modern art, where the meaning is super abstract. Decorations - of the covenant: 10 commandments stored in it. Horns mark divine nature in the old testament sculptors/masons were given very specific instruction of what to carve. The idea of art didnt really exist at this time. Jesus = divine force but given birth from a mortal woman. Jesus and mary side by side on portal. Mary = representation from the old testament (jewish) But ideas repped = totally different (pagan vs. monotheistic) Before this transition, we were analyzing architecture.
