ART-HIST 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Apse, Electrum, Diptych
14 Sep 2018
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The patronage of bishops: monumental and minute magnificence. Consciousness: tutor to otto iii---> eventually named bishop of hildesheim, inaugurated a campaign to endow city with an impressive image, art, castles, images. Illustrate bernward"s interest in roman and carolingian models. Similar rendering of the bodies; before sin, there was equality: god reproaches adam and eve, 1015, the blame game, everything is pointing to eve while eve points to the snake. In addition to the intellectual composition, we also have the expressive sculpture: the temptation and the crucifixion, typological theme: fall and redemption, bringing back life from the wilting tree in the scene on the left with adam and. Christ: alludes to trajan"s column in rome, 113, ce, narrates powerful military conquests vs. scenes celebrating christ, likening him to an emperor, celebrates bernward as an important patron, ecclesiastical capital in hildesheim that aligns with aachen. Dazzling objects: precious gospels of bernward, bernward before the altar and the virgin and child, hildesheim, c.
