Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi발음듣기
Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi
(lively piano music) Voiceover: One of the wealthiest people in early Renaissance Florence commissioned Gentile da Fabriano to paint a magnificent altar piece for his family's private chapel in an important church, Santa Trinita.발음듣기
The Magi are by legend the three kings who follow a star that leads them to Christ who has just been born, to whom they present gifts and acknowledge Christ as King of Kings by removing their own crowns, and placing them before Christ.발음듣기
Florence was a republic. Voiceover: The city of Florence was an independent, a political entity that was controlled by the wealthy merchants of the city and their guilds.발음듣기
Voiceover: The people of Florence were independent and proud members of a republic but then you had this enormous accumulation of wealth especially in the early 15th century.발음듣기
The artist came from Northern Italy, settled in Florence in large part because there was money to be made there.발음듣기
We read one estimate that he was paid six times the annual wage of a skilled laborer for this one altar piece.발음듣기
Through handling gold. Although Palla Strozzi, the patron for this particular painting ignored the banking business and was much more interested in the arts and humanist learning.발음듣기
Voiceover: As we stand here in the Uffizi Museum in Florence it's interesting to watch people look at this painting.발음듣기
Those people are picking out the many anecdotes that you can recognize very much the way people would have when the painting was first made.발음듣기
It's really quite an inventive structure because you have a continuous landscape, but what we're seeing within it are whole series of moments in time.발음듣기
Voiceover: In the upper left corner we can see the three kings very distant just under the star of Bethlehem over the sea.발음듣기
Then in the central arch we see the three kings entering Jerusalem where King Herod asked the three Magi to report back where they find this king that King Herod has heard will threaten his reign.발음듣기
You can see that there are two attendants just behind Mary that are examining the first gift, and Joseph is standing just to Mary's left.발음듣기
They're actually built up to be three-dimensional and this is done with plaster that is then gilded, but what it makes it look like is that it's a solid piece of gold that this is jewelry attached to the image itself.발음듣기
Voiceover: You can see why that kind of treatment of the gold might appeal to as wealthy a patron as Palla Strozzi.발음듣기
Voiceover: That's because we don't see some of the things that we associate with the early renaissance year.발음듣기
Unlike with Masaccio whose painting just a few years after this we don't see the near perspective.발음듣기
Voiceover: At the same time we see foreshortening which helps to create an illusion of space with the horse on the right for example or the horse behind who's facing us.발음듣기
The artist may have been influenced by somebody like Ambrogio Lorenzetti who had created an extensive landscape in the city of Siena.발음듣기
Voiceover: The figures are still somewhat elongated especially if you look at the Virgin Mary.발음듣기
Voiceover: I think the emphasis here is on her elegance, her beauty as opposed to her anatomical accuracy.발음듣기
On the left the Nativity, in the center the Flight into Egypt, and on the right the Presentation in the Temple.발음듣기
Lighting that comes from the moon and the stars, and the angels and the Christ child himself.발음듣기
Look for instance at the crown of peacocks worn by the figure on the right or the way in which the flowers in the frame push outward.발음듣기
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