Enguerrand Quarton, Pieta of Villeneuve-les-Avignon, c. 1455

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Enguerrand Quarton, Pieta of Villeneuve-les-Avignon, c. 1455발음듣기

(jazz music) Dr. Zucker: We're in the Louvre in Paris looking at a large pieta that we think is by Enguerrand Quarton.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Right.발음듣기

This is attributed to that artist and that's because it resembles in style a handful of paintings that survived by him.발음듣기

He was an artist who worked in Provence in the south of France.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: What art historians have tried to do in this case is tried to build an identity for an artist based on any records that exist.발음듣기

In this artist's case, we do have some contracts that exist, although not for this painting.발음듣기

Then we try to look at a painting stylistically and link it to others.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Once you have a couple of paintings that are firmly established, that makes it easier stylistically to link them.발음듣기

This is a pieta, a subject that is very popular, especially in German Renaissance art.발음듣기

Stylistically it's linked to the artists of the northern Renaissance.발음듣기

We might think about Van Eyck or Campin.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Look at the clarity, this precision and the attention to the anatomy of the body.발음듣기

It is attenuated, it still has one medieval tradition, but the way in which the bottom of Christ's ribcage protrudes, the way in which the knees are so carefully rendered, the feet are so carefully rendered.발음듣기

This is an artist that is studying the body.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: It reminds me of Roger van der Weyden, the artist of the northern Renaissance, and the way the figures are very close to us.발음듣기

Some art historians have described this as restrained emotionally.발음듣기

There is emotional depth at Mary Magdalene.발음듣기

She's crying, you see her holding a jar that she anointed Christ's feet with as her attribute. Her head is bent over.발음듣기

This is very reminiscent to me of the interest in emotion that we see in the works of Roger van der Weyden.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: The Virgin Mary who is in the center in a blue mantle is also beautifully depicted.발음듣기

There's a kind of solemnity, a kind of quiet sorrow.발음듣기

I think that part of the restraint comes from the separation of the figures.발음듣기

They are available to us, but there is so much space between them that they are, in some ways, alone in their sorrow.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Absolutely.발음듣기

None of the figures reach out to one another like we see in northern Renaissance painting and so some art historians have described this work as having a kind of primitive quality in the way that it's rigid in its composition.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Look at John, over by Christ's head and the way that he's so gently lifting the crown of thorns and supporting Christ's head with his other hand, but because the fingers are so delicately articulated, it almost seems as if he's strumming the striations that come from Christ's halo, as it if was a celestial harp.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Then, on the left, we see the donor in a position that's very typical, kneeling in prayer, but with an attention to the realism of this face.발음듣기

That's a portrait of someone very specific, but who's unidentified, obviously a cleric.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: It's probably worth pointing out that the painting has layers of grime on it.발음듣기

It was in a church and it's important to remember the churches before the 20th century were illuminated with candles and with oil lanterns and oil that produces soot, which gets all over the surface of the painting.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: I imagine the blues and the greens and the reds are really quite stunning underneath.발음듣기

We do have a sense of a city, back in that left corner, but there's that gold background that simultaneously denies a sense of space.발음듣기

You could interpret that city as the heavenly Jerusalem, which would be a common subject to find in paintings like this in the background, but there's noticeably a dome there and smaller domes, which reminds me of Istanbul.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: Those are minarets and those minarets actually have crescent moons on the top of them.발음듣기

This is clearly in Islamic context.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: I used the modern word for the city, Istanbul, but that could be in the 15th century what was Constantinople, which just a year or two before this painting's date was taken by the Ottomans.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: So this might be, in some ways, of contemporaneous account and at least one art historian has suggested that the theme of the pieta would be appropriate to the loss of that important Christian city.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: Pieta simply means the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of her son.발음듣기

Usually surrounded by the figures that we see here.발음듣기

It can be a really awkward composition where a smaller woman holds the large body of a man.발음듣기

It's a little strange in that way, but the artist has dealt with that in a really lovely way by creating this arc of Christ's body that goes from the lower right to the lower left or vice versa.발음듣기

There's a nice, sweeping curve, so we don't notice that disjunction as much.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: There is tremendous attention, also, to the folds of drapery that fall from the knee of the Virgin Mary that creates the inverted v under Christ's back.발음듣기

Look at the brilliance of those white folds that are revealed on the underside of the Virgin Mary's cloak.발음듣기

That attention to detail can be seen throughout the painting.발음듣기

Look, for instance, at the terrible scoring across Christ's body, from the whips that he endured.발음듣기

That torture is present even in this quiet moment of mourning.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: It almost looks as though Mary's tears have dropped down onto the wound in Christ's side and mixed with his blood. It's deeply moving.발음듣기

We see tooling in the gold that identifies the figures in their halos, which are decorative and stamped into that thin leaf gold background and we also see an inscription around the top of the image on three sides.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: That creates a kind of frame.발음듣기

Dr. Harris: In thinking about how this painting was made with that gold leaf background, we see the red underneath.발음듣기

Dr. Zucker: That's red clay that's called bole and created a kind of soft, spongy surface that the gold could be laid onto and helped the gold adhere to the surface.발음듣기

It keeps the gold from having a cold quality and it gives it a warm luster. (jazz music)발음듣기

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