VIS 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Christian Philosophy, Indulgence, Protestantism
High Renaissance
❏Florence
❏Focus of commissions are the cathedrals
❏Michelangelo- David the symbol of the republic of florence
❏1st issue: the stone statue was roughed out
❏2nd issue: michelangelo couldn’t stand back and see the whole figure
❏Old testament david, completely nude, more muscular and older
❏Traditional figures of david has the head of goliath at the feet, however in
michelangelo’s version goliath’s head is missing and david is alert and
watchful and anxious
❏Thinking of current situation of florence?
❏A sense of warning against the medici family
❏Placed at the entrance of city hall
❏Tempietto, Bramante (Rome)
❏Architects were trained as artists then learned architecture
❏Bramante was an apprentice to an artist who painted architecture scenes, studied
ruins
❏Christian building, built on the site where saint peter was crucified
❏Paid by king and queen of spain, NOT a church
❏Belief in ratios, geometry, harmony in numbers
❏In the middle of a courtyard, surrounded by 16 columns
❏doric/tuscan columns, frieze made up triglyphs and metopes
❏Resembles greek doric columns
❏Half dome was part concrete, has ribs on the shingling, 16 flat columns
behind main columns
❏Round because plato wrote the circle is the best geometrical form
❏Work of sculpture marking a holy site
❏Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
❏Monastery, painted in the dining hall
❏Core belief in christianity that the communion during mass is a reenactment of
last supper (body and blood of christ)
❏Was painted on dry plaster, mixed media (oil paint, tempra, etc)
❏Thought as a work of genius, saw as “deteriorating” after 19 years
❏Cut a door underneath, napoleon used the refectory as a stable, painting was
abused constantly -> continuously had to be restored
❏Copies all vary and the restoration resulted in removal of anything that was
added-> only 20% of the original was left behind
❏Significance: christ announces one person at the table will betray him -> everyone
at the table reacts -> each person has his own reaction
Document Summary
Michelangelo- david the symbol of the republic of florence. 1st issue: the stone statue was roughed out. 2nd issue: michelangelo couldn"t stand back and see the whole figure. Old testament david, completely nude, more muscular and older. Traditional figures of david has the head of goliath at the feet, however in michelangelo"s version goliath"s head is missing and david is alert and watchful and anxious. A sense of warning against the medici family. Placed at the entrance of city hall. Architects were trained as artists then learned architecture. Bramante was an apprentice to an artist who painted architecture scenes, studied ruins. Christian building, built on the site where saint peter was crucified. Paid by king and queen of spain, not a church. Belief in ratios, geometry, harmony in numbers. In the middle of a courtyard, surrounded by 16 columns. Doric/tuscan columns, frieze made up triglyphs and metopes.
