FA 30b Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Crouching Venus
1 Mar 2017
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Vatican, rome) was one of his greatest masterpieces, even though he saw himself as a sculptor and not a painter. Chapel was where the cardinals would gather to choose the next pope. The walls expounded papal authority by depicting scenes from the life of christ and moses. Thus, the narrative scenes are the innermost level of illusion. The narrative consists of 9 scenes divided into 3 groups of 3: god, adam and eve, and noah. The unifying theme is the anticipation of christ"s coming. A screen in the chapel divided the laity from the clergy; the scenes were placed relative to this scenes of god near the. Pope/clergy, and the scenes of adam, eve, and noah near the laity because of the idea of all as sinful. Rome) places emphasis on the nude human body as a means of expressing ideal. He was not interested in perspective, background, and positioning.
