ARHI 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Guardians Of Time, Mary Magdalene, Enrico Degli Scrovegni
9 Jul 2016
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Scrovegni chapel padua was an important university city (now north of italy) religious propaganda wealthy banking family who commissioned this tella the story of mary and christ, narrative. Last register = passion and resurrection built to redeem family from past crimes (practiced usury charging interest) absolve sins by giving $ to church or commission something religious. Dante - the divine comedy: uses head of scrovegni to be punished most heavily. Giotto moving towards 3d by using colour/shading/light (not just about having. Gures behind gures) uses natural landscape; sense of depth; smaller background, bigger foreground lamentation: to mourn. Christ taken off the cross, mary (represented in blue) gently embracing dead body of jesus, followers/disciples surrounding, mary magdelene at the feet (she annointed his feet) John the baptiste (distraught, arms back) multiple expressions of grief individuality. Gures with back to us gives sense that artist is capturing what is actually happening, snapshot of reality, representing things naturally/as they are.
